The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) recently released the results of its 2021 survey on prohibited practices. The report features a number of key talking points, but one stands out. Federal agencies have become increasingly partisan, and more employees have...
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Three things we learned from a recent MPSB opinion
As a federal employee, you enjoy certain legal protections. These exist to ensure that others will judge you based on your performance. The law prevents agencies from taking action against you based on your race, age, gender, religion, disability or any other...
When are collective or individual acts against a whistleblower retaliatory?
Today we look at a recent precedential Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) decision about federal-employee whistleblowers and retaliatory treatment. Now that the U.S. Senate has confirmed a third board member who began service on June 1, the Board is fully staffed...
Lessons from a whistleblower claim before the MSPB, part 2
In part 1 of this post, we told readers about the April 13 Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) opinion in Smith v. Department of the Army. The board found in favor of a whistleblower who had publicized that military morticians had sent her late husband’s cremated...
MSPB is back: DoD retaliated against whistleblower widow, part 1
We recently discussed the end of the five-year hiatus of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) with U.S. Senate approval of two board members President Biden had nominated. Two members present of the normally three-person board are enough to constitute a quorum...
