In two volumes, updated annually, this encyclopedic guide to Board cases, laws, procedure, and litigation practice is the seminal text on this complex area of the law. Major topics include jurisdiction, appeals, discovery, hearings, evidence, PFRs, adverse actions and discipline, nexus and mitigation, substantive offenses, performance cases, RIFs, PPPs, retirement, attorney fees, settlement, remedies, and judicial review. This authoritative text is a component of the American Civil Service Law Series. (more details)

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Updated annually, this encyclopedic guide condenses MSPB and Federal Circuit decisions from 1999 through 2010 into concise, useable summaries. Cases are arranged by subject matter areas of Board jurisprudence and further categorized alphabetically for ease of use. Major topics include adverse and performance actions, arbitration/collective bargaining issues, attorney fees, Board procedure, jurisdiction and judicial review, defenses, discrimination, evidence, harmful error, hearings, PPPs, retirement, reemployment, remedies, RIFs, settlements, substantive offenses, timeliness, USERRA and VEOA. (more details)

Best of the Board reviews the development of Board law through analysis and reporting of the Board appellate process and seminal Board and Federal Circuit cases from 1978 to the present. Major topics include efficiency of the service standard, board decisional processes, evidence, charges and penalties, agency decisional errors, affirmative defenses, unusual jurisdictional issues, settlements, and attorney fees. (more details)

Ideal for federal supervisors and managers, and anyone who advises them, this handbook is a how-to guide on misconduct, performance and discipline. Major topics include how to prove the elements of a disciplinary action, selecting a penalty, how to improve performance and how to support an performance-based action, the termination process, and nontraditional disciplinary techniques. (more details)