Blog Posts in October, 2009
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MSPB: How the credibility of witnesses can affect your MSPB appeal.
Posted By The Law Offices of Eric L. Pines, PLLCIn any Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) hearing, there is invariably testimony from the Agency’s and the Appellant’s witnesses that is not entirely consistent. Though sometimes this may be the result of a witness being untruthful, most times this a purely natural phenomena. Reasonable people can observe the same occurrences from different perspectives, memories affect recollection of ...Continue Reading -
This post is part of a continuing series describing the general discovery tools available to Federal Employees who are Appellants before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and/or Complainants before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Posted By The Law Offices of Eric L. Pines, PLLCWe have been getting an increasing number of calls over the last year about firefighters in the Federal Government being denied retirement credits for time served as a firefighter. Here are the rules, and how it works. If you are reading this, then you know that Federal employees that work as firefighters are entitled to enhanced retirement benefits (including earlier retirement ages, larger ...Continue Reading -
MSPB & EEOC: What are Requests for Admission and how does the Federal Employee use them in discovery?
Posted By The Law Offices of Eric L. Pines, PLLCThis post is part of a continuing series describing the general discovery tools available to Federal Employees who are Appellants before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and/or Complainants before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Both the MSPB and the EEOC afford Appellants (or Complainants) the opportunity to pursue discovery. While the timelines and the amounts of ...Continue Reading
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