Posts in September, 2009

Sep 27 MSPB: Federal Employee Firefighters and Retirement Credit for firefighting positions

We have been getting an increasing number of calls over the last year about firefighters in the Federal Government being denied ...

Sep 27 MSPB & EEOC: What is Discovery and How can the Federal Employee use it?

Both the MSPB and the EEOC afford Appellants (or Complainants) the opportunity to pursue discovery. While the timelines and the ...

Sep 19 MSPB: Probationary Federal Employees, Appeal Rights, and "Tacking"

Probationary employees generally have no right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). If, however, the Federal ...

Sep 07 Fed. Circuit: MSPB must give considerable weight to Mental Health conditions as mitigating factor.

On August 25, 2009, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision remanding an MSPB Appellant’s case back to the MSPB for ...