Anybody who’s ever been a supervisor in government knows this to be true! You catch an employee committing a serious crime and try to fire him/her – give it up. They can be serving time in jail and will still retain their civil service status.
This board of three is down to one and can’t do the job is was created to do – all to the benefit of the SIEU and other government unions.
One reason why the Dims are doing everything they can to block new appointees.
Admitting the necessity of a functional Merit Systems Protection Board, given the current structure of our civil service system, should not be read as an endorsement of the status quo, however.
The board is an indispensable pillar of a badly outdated structure built 40 years ago and barely remodeled since. The entire architecture of the Civil Service Reform Act should be reimagined.
As a start, Congress should greatly simplify the administrative appeals process, creating a single forum for appeals of adverse agency actions.
That system existed prior to 1978 and the dissolution of the Civil Service Commission—and it worked well. A modern iteration of the commission could more expeditiously settle appeals and deliver justice for the appellant and the agency.
Splitting responsibility for appeals among several agencies does not guarantee more effective enforcement. The only thing it ensures is a less efficient process.
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