Understanding the Merit Systems Protection Board provides you with straightforward guidance on the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and its functions, including the board’s origins, its organization and staff, what it handles, and the various appeals processes.
With no confusing language and overwhelming case minutia, you focus on the “big picture” of the MSPB process – discovery, motions, appeals, relevant statutes and regulations, and more. Quick-read chapters explain just what you need to know, including:
- What an agency must prove when involved in an adverse action before the Board
- Four critical elements to crafting charges
- The three statutory affirmative defenses
- Eleven circumstances under which personnel actions can become a prohibited personnel practice
- Key points to keep in mind when dealing with employee claims that fall within jurisdiction of both the MSPB and the EEOC
- And more
What's more, a chapter devoted to the MSPB hearing gives you a firm grasp of how the hearing works from start to finish, with details on the prehearing conference and submissions, how to make sure your witnesses appear, presentation of cases, moving the documents into evidence and other crucial phases.
