James48843
03-11-2010, 06:37 PM
Federal Employees Have Less than 2% Chance of Success Before MSPB Judges (http://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2010/03/articles/legislation/federal-employees-have-less-than-2-chance-of-success-before-mspb-judges/)
Posted on March 11, 2010 by David Colapinto (http://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2007/11/promo/services/david-k-colapinto/)
New MSPB case statistics have implications for pending whistleblower legislation.
Things just keep getting worse for federal employees and whistleblowers who challenge adverse actions taken by federal employers. Charlotte Yee recently posted on the Government Accountability Is A Citizen’s Responsibility blog (http://www.civilservicechange.org/?p=2347) the official Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Fiscal Year 2008 (Oct. 2007 – Sept. 2008) statistics for all non-benefit cases decided by MSPB administrative judges. The results are, once again, astoundingly biased in favor of the federal employers.
The MSPB judges ruled in favor of employees a total of 1.7% of the time out of a total caseload of 4,698 cases nationwide.
In other words, if you are a federal employee and have a whistleblower reprisal claim or otherwise challenge serious discipline or a termination before the MSPB you have more than a 97% chance of losing your case (even after factoring in the cases that settle).
More: http://www.whistleblowersblog.org/
Posted on March 11, 2010 by David Colapinto (http://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2007/11/promo/services/david-k-colapinto/)
New MSPB case statistics have implications for pending whistleblower legislation.
Things just keep getting worse for federal employees and whistleblowers who challenge adverse actions taken by federal employers. Charlotte Yee recently posted on the Government Accountability Is A Citizen’s Responsibility blog (http://www.civilservicechange.org/?p=2347) the official Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Fiscal Year 2008 (Oct. 2007 – Sept. 2008) statistics for all non-benefit cases decided by MSPB administrative judges. The results are, once again, astoundingly biased in favor of the federal employers.
The MSPB judges ruled in favor of employees a total of 1.7% of the time out of a total caseload of 4,698 cases nationwide.
In other words, if you are a federal employee and have a whistleblower reprisal claim or otherwise challenge serious discipline or a termination before the MSPB you have more than a 97% chance of losing your case (even after factoring in the cases that settle).
More: http://www.whistleblowersblog.org/