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Legal Assistance for Federal Employees
It has been a rough four years for the rights of federal employees. From a gutted Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), to a Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) that has seemingly gone rogue, to a series of Executive Orders signed by President Trump weakening employee and Union rights, some of us who practice in federalRead More
Although the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) is currently suffering from a lack of quorum and resulting inability to issue new decisions (Read the Press Release about the lack of quorum Here), the Board appears to have been very busy during the holiday season issuing decisions prior to the departure of MSPB ChairmanRead More
The Merit Systems Protection Board, commonly referred to as the MSPB, was created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 to replace the old Civil Service Commission. The Merit Systems Protection Board is a quasi-judicial agency that hears appeals of federal employees who have been removed, demoted, or suspended for more than fourteen (14)Read More
In a series of recent decisions, the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) reversed the indefinite suspensions of federal government employees who had been suspended from their civil service jobs without pay pending decisions regarding the status of their security clearances. The MSPB ordered the employing agencies to cancel the indefinite suspensions of the employees andRead More
