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In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on an employee's right to challenge an Agency's security clearance determination finding that such decisions cannot be second guessed by MSPB.…
AFGE and TSA have apparently reached agreement on a new labor agreement. There are some questions that should be asked but have been ignored by the media.
The author discusses performance standards and what he believes is a fundamental law of performance evaluations and the most common reason appraisals have failed in the past.
For the first time in four years, new whistleblower disclosures received by the Office of Special Counsel dropped.
A twenty-year IRS agent was not able to convince the appeals court to overturn his removal for willfully underreporting his income on his federal tax returns.
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…
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…
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…
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…