Failing to Pay Government Charge Card Bill Leads to Removal
An employee of the Postal Service did not pay his government charge card bill and ended up being fired for misuse of funds. The MSPB and a federal court upheld the removal.
An employee of the Postal Service did not pay his government charge card bill and ended up being fired for misuse of funds. The MSPB and a federal court upheld the removal.
A federal judge is usually thought of as having a lifetime appointment. That is not always the case. This federal bankruptcy court judge went to court to get his job back after his term expired and he was not reappointed.
Applicants for federal law enforcement jobs may have to pass a lie detector test to be hired according to a new court ruling that upholds the use of polygraph testing.
This federal lawyer went to court to get her job back but the court dismissed her appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
A federal employee who was fired during his probationary period asked a court to award him one billion dollars in damages. The court was not impressed with the gravity of the alleged offense and the appellant remains a former federal employee.
This federal employee went from getting good ratings to being terminated during his probationary period after he became involved in internal office politics. But, despite being a probationary employee, he will get his day in court after filing a complaint that he was fired for engaging in protected EEO activity.
The former Medical Director of the VA Nuclear Medicine Section in Columbia, Missouri, persuaded the federal appeals court that he was the subject of retaliation for protected whistleblowing.
After the Dept. of Veterans Affairs determined that no discipline was warranted against one of its executives, the irritated exec went to court to get the agency reports deleted or corrected. A district court granted summary judgment for the agency but an appeals court sent it back for further review.
How much accommodation is necessary for an agency to comply with the Rehabilitation Act? In this case, the court found that the Postal Service did not unlawfully discriminate when it placed an employee on sick leave and a court granted summary judgment for the agency.
A carpenter with the Army said he was promised by his supervisor that if he would help him with personal home improvement projects, he would promote the carpenter. When he was not promoted, the carpenter filed a complaint under the Whistleblower Protection Act but he loses before the MSPB and a federal court.