NTEU Supports Push for Expanded Appeal Rights

NTEU has submitted comments supporting a proposed Merit Systems Protection Board rule that will allow employees to challenge being involuntarily moved from the competitive service to the excepted service. NTEU remains opposed to reinstating Schedule F but supports mitigation efforts should employees find themselves caught up in an involuntary move.

The goal of the last Schedule F was to allow agencies to move tens of thousands of employees from the competitive service to the excepted service. Proponents of Schedule F believed that this would allow agencies to fire these employees more easily.

We are working on multiple fronts to protect employees if a future administration brings back Schedule F. MSPB’s proposed rule expanding appeal rights is an important piece of these efforts. NTEU is urging MSPB to finalize this rule quickly.

Visit NTEU’s webpage with Schedule F information and updates.

Read past issues of NTEU’s Judicial Notice.