Merit Systems Protection Board
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According to an MSPB survey, more federal employees say they've witnessed or experienced prohibited personnel practices such as discrimination and whistelblower retaliation in recent years.
June 07, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, an arbitrator finds the Veterans Affairs Department should take down a public record of employee firings and other punishments from its website.
June 07, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Merit Systems Protection Board finds between 1999 and 2016, only about 7 for ever 1000 new supervisors faced consequences for failing their probationary period.
May 20, 2019 -
Federal employees have a new flexibility to earn time off for religious reasons, while Congress considers a partial solution to resolve a shortcoming at the member-less Merit Systems Protection Board.
May 08, 2019 -
President Donald Trump at last nominated a third member to fill the Merit Systems Protection Board, after more than two years without a quorum.
April 30, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is looking to require all fixed price contracts be paid out through performance-based contractual payments.
April 30, 2019 -
Three House committee chairmen are launching an investigation into recent leadership changes at the Department of Homeland Security.
April 26, 2019 -
Virginia Democrat Gerry Connolly isn’t concerned with overreach as he pursues an agenda of oversight and accountability.
April 26, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Government Ethics wants feedback on whether it should set restrictions on donations to legal expense funds for federal employees.
April 18, 2019 -
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) said it would have to cut workforce, already operating without voting board members, if the President's proposed 10% budget cut went through next year.
April 17, 2019 -
The Trump administration's 2020 budget proposal includes recommendations that would shorten the time federal employees have to appeal a disciplinary or performance-based firing, suspension or other punishment.
March 19, 2019 -
It's an unfortunate but when you have a workforce of 2 million people, a few of them will commit harassment, retaliate against whistleblowers or drag their partisan politics to the office.
March 14, 2019 -
ICF Senior Vice President Jeff Neal explains how President Theodore Roosevelt's efforts to preserve the civil service could teach today's leadership a thing or two.
March 05, 2019 -
A creeping incompetence in handling the government seems to be overtaking Congress. Case in point? What's going on with the MSPB.
March 04, 2019 -
Merit Systems Protection Board has lost all members now, after the Senate on Thursday failed to take up legislation that would have extended the holdover term for the last remaining board member or hold a vote on the president's two nominees.
March 01, 2019