By Deborah Hopkins, October 24, 2022 FELTG Nation, we have our first 2022 MSPB decision with a dissent! Let’s take a look. The appellant was a GS-14 Security Specialist at DTRA. One morning, he put food from the cafeteria’s self-serve breakfast buffet in a container,...
By Dan Gephart, September 26, 2022 When Christine Griffin (photo, right) started her tenure as a commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2005, she had a long list of things she wanted to work on. Despite her previous work with the Boston...
By Deborah J. Hopkins, September 19, 2022 I don’t know about you, but I am still loving the fact that we have a fully functioning MSPB again. While you might be tempted to skip over the non-precedential (NP) cases, you should rethink that because we have found several...
By William Wiley, August 30, 2022 Sometimes an MSPB decision that identifies itself as nonprecedential is still an important decision. That’s especially true in times like these when we have three relatively new members of the Board who are being called on to...
By William Wiley and Deborah J. Hopkins, August 22, 2022 In a recent MSPB case law update (the next one is October 20, if you’re interested), we discussed the Douglas factors and the new comparator analysis the Board laid out in Singh v. USPS, 2022 MSPB 15 (May 31,...
By Dan Gephart, August 8, 2022 For five-plus years, we at FELTG and others have referred to the then-growing backlog of cases at the Merit Systems Protection Board with dread. So the enthusiasm with which MSPB Acting Chair Cathy Harris is approaching her new position,...
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