MSPB Attorney at the Attig Law Firm describes the three situations where a Federal Employee might be suspended indefinitely.
MSPB Attorney at the Attig Law Firm provides a brief analysis of an MSPB Decision, Suggs v. Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs. That case deals with mitigation of the penalty of removal for disrespectful conduct to a 30-day suspension.
The new Full MSPB has released what appears to be a first step towards improving the protections for Federal employees who are whistleblowers.
In a recent decision, the MSPB clarified what constitutes a personnel action in an Individual Right of Action (IRA) Appeal. Weed v. Social Security Administration, 2010 MSPB 23 (January 28, 2010).
In that case, an applicant for Federal Employment complained that an Agency decided not to select him for a postion in reprisal for disclosures he had made in 2006 [...]
OPM is proposing changes in the rules regarding maintenance of personnel files, known as Official Personnel Folders (or, OPF), for former federal employees. Under the proposed rule change, OPM wants the OPF’s to be solely under the employing agency’s control until the worker leaves the government. Then OPM would be responsible for maintenance. OPM also wants to change the rules to require the employing agency to be charged for requests for copies of former federal employee OPFs.
You can read more [...]
A federal employee is suing OPM based on its denial of federal health insurance benefits. The federal employee is a lawyer employed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. She was married in California when the state permitted same-sex marriages.
You can read more about the case on the Washington Post (Federal Diary) website.
The Attig Law Firm represents federal employees and postal workers nationwide in their disability retirement applications, disability discrimination claims, wrongful suspension and termination claims, and other [...]
A Federal Employee won recognition from President Obama by proposing an idea that could save the Federal Government up to $3.8 million annually.
The SAVE program (Securing Americans Value and Efficiency Award) recognizes citizens that come up with ways to save the Federal Government money.
This Federal Employee’s idea was to allow patients who leave VA hospitals to keep inhalers, eye drops or other leftover medications when they leave the hospital. Until now, the VA would throw away those medicines, and then [...]
The title of this post has been appearing in recent emails and contacts to our Firm with increasing frequency. In the opinion of this author, it is the wrong question to be asking.
The reason I say this is the wrong question is that the Federal employee does not want to go out and find some random doctor who will support their claim that they are unable to work and therefore eligible for federal disability retirement. On the other [...]
December 16, 2009: Congress has finalized a 2 percent raise for General Schedule (GS) employees. The budget measure specifies paying 1.5 percentage points to base pay and splitting funds for the remaining half-percent as locality pay.
Wage grade employees, who are paid under a separate system, will have their raises capped at the amount going to GS employees in their location; wage grade raises are paid at varying times of the year.
New pay tables will be issued with an upcoming presidential order on the raise, [...]
OPM has issued a schedule of the interest rates to be used in calculating Back-Pay awards for the time period beginning April 1, 1989 through the fiscal quarter starting October 1, 2009.
You can see the schedule by following this link: http://www.opm.gov/oca/pay/backpay/HTML/BACKPAY.asp
The Attig Law Firm represents Federal Employees in MSPB Appeals, EEOC Complaints, OWCP claims, schedule award requests, federal disability retirement applications to OPM and appeals to the MSPB, and much more. The Firm also provides representation to U.S. Veterans who were [...]
One key element to federal government disability retirement under FERS or CSRS is that the accommodation of the federal employee’s disabling medical condition must be unreasonable.
Many times, an Agency (there are some that do this more than others) will modify the employee’s position or duties in such a way that it is not truly accommodating the employee. This could take the form of Light Duty, Limited Duty, a modified or make-shift position, etc. This is not truly an accommodation. An accommodation, [...]
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