Perspective: Agency vacancies stymie work and neglect federal employees
Mark A. Robbins, shown in February with boxes of backlogged cases at the Merit Systems Protection Board. He was the only member of the three-person board until his term expired last week. By Joe Davidson Joe Davidson Columnist focusing on federal government issues Email Bio Follow Columnist March 5 at 5:29 PM What does it say about a rich uncle who treats his family like neglected children?
Trump and the Senate have been derelict in their duty to keep the agencies wholly operational. Certainly, the civil servants are continuing to work and some things are getting done.FLRA employees are frustrated because Trump has nominated no one as the agency’s general counsel, and the associate general counsel’s office has been empty for more than a year. Does he care at all about the tiny but important agency that boasts of its “labor-management relations program for 2.
Although the board can function with two, an email from Sen. Gary Peters , the ranking Democrat on the committee, said: “The best outcome for federal workers is to have a fully operational MSPB, and that will require the Trump Administration sending Congress a third qualified nominee who can gain broad bipartisan support in the Senate.”Waiting for three when two are ready doesn’t make good sense to John Palguta.
“The vacancies of principal officers at MSPB are untenable,” subcommittee Chairman Gerald E. Connolly at the hearing Thursday. “Federal employees deserve to have their appeals heard by the board. Employees of MSPB deserve to work at a fully functioning agency, and taxpayers deserve to have their government capable of carrying out the nation’s laws. President Trump’s vacancies stand in the way of each of these missions.
Among those hit hard by the MSPB’s sad state are feds who fight management retaliation against them for reporting government waste, fraud and abuse.
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