Category Archives: Discipline/Adverse Action
AGENCIES TO PAY REINSTATED EMPLOYEES’ BACK TAXES Our good friends at Dewey Publications just posted a story about how MSPB will now allow reinstated employees to receive money beyond their back pay due if the lump sum raises their income … Continue reading
DO NOT SIGN THIS FORM; TELL EVERYONE As part of his plans to destroy America’s civil service as an effective institution protecting citizens, Trump has created a fictional status for federal employees that will enable him, Elon or whatever other … Continue reading
BORDER PATROL HUMBLED BY TRUMPERS AGAIN Once it endorsed Trump in the 2016 election, he rewarded the Border Patrol Council with the most lavish collective bargaining agreement ever negotiated in the federal sector. (It was particularly sumptuous for the union … Continue reading
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Tagged Grievance Timeliness
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MSPB WATERS DOWN THE KALKINES RIGHT While the Commander-in-Chief is busy redecorating the oval office in a style that can only be described as neo-bordello, his bouncers at the MSPB have been chipping away at the Constitutional rights of federal … Continue reading
DON’T BET AGAINST THIS HAPPENING NEAR YOU Somewhere early in this new White House Administration some probationary employee is going to be fired because some higher up thinks the employee does not support the new President’s political views or because … Continue reading
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AN INTERESTING DECISION ABOUT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTABILITY The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) posted a press release in late December announcing that it was ordering two SES Executives suspended for 30 & 36 days. OSC found that they committed prohibited personnel practices … Continue reading
WHAT IS AN AGGRAVATING FACTOR? Looks like we Feds are going to be dealing with a lot more adverse actions soon if Trump’s Department of Efficiency has its way. Given that MSPB just issued a new precedent setting adverse action … Continue reading
NEVER BORROW A STRIPPER’S VAPE PEN A Correctional Officer at the Federal Bureau of Prisons is learning why. After a death in his family, he went to a bar, had one too many, took a few hits off a stripper’s … Continue reading
IF YOU INSIST ON BITING YOUR WIFE… expect some job consequences if she has you arrested, especially if you are a Homeland Security law enforcement officer (LEO). When the employee reported the arrest to his supervisor the next workday, he … Continue reading
REINSTATEMENT & FRONT PAY AFTER REMOVAL FOR 840 HOURS OF AWOL/LWOP Let’s count the mistakes the FBI made in terminating this employee (Emmitt) who had asked for a disability-related reasonable accommodation. First, the employee’s supervisor showed up at his house … Continue reading