Federal Government Policy and Business

Due process for feds protects against spoils system, report says

The Washington Post: The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), a small agency often steeped in the minutiae of federal employment law, clearly lays out the history and importance of providing procedures to protect feds and the public from a government for the benefit of political parties instead of the people.

The report is an educational tool that many in Congress would do well to read before they allow political appointees to fire civil servants at will. That is what a bipartisan majority of the House voted to do last year for senior executives in Department of Veterans Affairs. They would have been stripped of their right to appeal demotions and firings, essentially making them “at-will” workers.

Read article