MSPB Delaying Processing of DoD Furlough Appeals
The Merit Systems Protection Board is delaying the processing and adjudication of the recent influx of furlough appeals until it can get a better general understanding of them.
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MSPB: Room for Improvement in Rewarding Federal Employees
The Merit Systems Protection Board said in a recent report that federal workers generally appear to be motivated in their work, but that there is room for improvement in terms of linking rewards to employee performance.
Election Results Not Likely to Change MSPB Appeals Process
According to a new study of data by Tully Rinckey PLLC, the MSPB’s track record for disposing of federal employees’ initial appeals and petitions for review has not changed much under either Republican or Democratic administrations.
Federal Sector Workplace is Most Violent According to Recent MSPB Report
An MSPB survey found that 13% of federal employee respondents observed a violent incident in 2010. According to the report, BLS reported a result of 5% relating violent incidents in industry, state and local government asking similar questions. If the survey sample is valid, nearly 300,000 Feds observed violent incidents at work as there are about 2.3 million Federal employees.
Fed Government Continues Sparring with Veterans in MSPB
The author says that the federal government continues to fumble with veteran’s preference matters as evidenced by some recent cases.
MSPB Decision Quality Improves at Cost of Adjudication Timeliness
The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and its reviewing court are increasingly seeing eye to eye on issues involving federal employment law. Consequently, the independent quasi-judicial agency charged with protecting federal merit principles is also getting slower at delivering justice.
MSPB “Firing Squads” versus Traditional Disciplinary Procedures
What is the best way for an agency to take a disciplinary action? An experienced federal human resources expert offers an opinion and explains what factors go into winning an appeal.
All in the Family
This federal employee’s disciplinary case involved a charge of nepotism, a violation that one does not encounter every day in the federal workplace.
Locker Room Behavior — Pants Dropping, Sex Banter — Merits Demotion
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently ruled the U.S. Postal Service was justified in demoting a supervisor to a non-managerial position after he consistently made inappropriate comments and, at one point, dropped his pants at work.
Fed Employees’ Removals Reversed because of Termination Secrets
Federal agency managers need to be more forthcoming with the information they use in their decisions to fire employees. Due to a February 2011 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board is no longer inclined to consider an agency’s omission of such information from removal notices as a harmless procedural error.
