NFFE Successfully Challenges Forest Service Random Drug Testing Policy
The appeals court has tossed a Forest Service random drug testing policy that applied to Job Corps Center staff calling it a “solution in search of a problem.”
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The appeals court has tossed a Forest Service random drug testing policy that applied to Job Corps Center staff calling it a “solution in search of a problem.”
An appeals court has no problem with a federal employee volunteering for multiple years to serve on a local county court grand jury and requiring her agency employer to continue paying her full salary.
The appeals court has sent an appeal back to the arbitrator with instructions to consider evidence that came up after the personnel action was taken in reaching his final decision on appropriateness of the removal penalty.
While not specifically involving the federal sector, a case involving an Atlantic City casino whose facts give rise to the court tossing it back to the NLRB to try again demonstrate that unions can in fact step over the line in organizing campaigns.
The Supreme Court has just issued a decision that heads off an end run around the Civil Service Reform Act’s employee appeals process. The court refuses to permit the district courts to supplant MSPB jurisdiction simply because the appeal is challenging the constitutionality of the law barring those who dodge selective service registration requirements from being employed by the federal government.
The US Court of Appeals disagrees with the lower court’s refusal to dismiss a Bivens lawsuit filed personally against a supervisor by a fired Library of Congress probationary employee. The case has been remanded with instructions to dismiss.
With federal agencies either hitting the brakes on hiring or implementing draconian cuts, federal employees increasingly found themselves stuck in work environments that saw morale suffer and, in some cases, turned hostile.
The MSPB is proposing to change its regulations in “radical” ways.
The FLRA has announced a series of Town Meetings that practitioners should consider attending. On a sad note, a Federal labor relations giant passes.
In a recent decision the Federal Circuit refused to buy a probationary employee’s argument that he should receive credit for his military service against his probation requirement in determining whether he was covered by the statutory right to appeal his probationary separation to the Merit Systems Protection Board.