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MSPB making ‘good headway’ through case backlog, acting chairwoman Harris says

MSPB has made decisions on 200 cases after meeting quorum in March. The board now plans to ramp up after reaching its first three-member panel in seven years.

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NAPA report details path forward for OPM, but advocates worry it’ll be easily forgotten

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Senate committee clears 2 nominees, but for now leaves MSPB’s future hanging by a thread

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday cleared two of the President’s nominees to fill the Merit Systems Protection…

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In this Aug. 7, 2018, photo, Mark Robbins, the last remaining member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, looks through stacks of legal cases piled up on his desk in Washington office. Robbins reads through federal workplace disputes, analyzes the cases, marks them with notes and logs his legal opinions. He then passes them along to nobody. He’s the only member of a three-member board that legally can’t operate until the president and Congress give him at least one colleague. (AP Photo/Juliet Linderman)

What it’s like to work during a partial government shutdown alone. Literally.

The partial government shutdown has ceased nearly all operations at the Merit Systems Protection Board.

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In this Aug. 7, 2018, photo, Mark Robbins, the sole member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, walks through the supply closet, pointing to boxes full of cases, in his office in Washington. Robbins reads through federal workplace disputes, analyzes the cases, marks them with notes and logs his legal opinions. He then passes them along to nobody. He’s the only member of a three-member board that legally can’t operate until the president and Congress give him at least one colleague. (AP Photo/Juliet Linderman)

MSPB’s only member still has to work through partial shutdown

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Amid the partial government shutdown, one group sometimes gets overlooked. Political appointees must stay on the job.

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