U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Appeals and Petitions for Review

The Law Offices of Gerald Gilliard represents Federal employees, officers, managers and executives regarding prohibited personnel practices before the U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) and the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).  Prohibited personnel practices include nepotism, obstruction of competition for employment, disregard of veterans’ preferences, coercion of political activity, and discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, marital status or political affiliation.

We also represent agency employees concerning violations of the Whistleblower Protection Act Such violations include adverse actions or any personnel actions committed against an employee for “blowing the whistle” on gross mismanagement, waste, fraud, or a substantial and specific danger to health and safety.

We certainly represent Federal employees in their appeal of adverse actions (removals, suspensions, demotions, etc.), internal investigations, petitions for review of Initial Decisions to the full MSPB Board, and MSPB Board final decisions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

The Law Offices of Gerald Gilliard will be by your side when you face suitability determinations, security clearance revocations, obstacles concerning the Family Medical Leave Act and other time and leave issues, OSHA and workplace safety, probationary periods, probations and the full gamut of agency personnel law.

The Law Offices of Gerald Gilliard attorney Gerald Gilliard, has worked with a former MSPB Chairman, and is currently a member of a network of Washington, D.C. employment law attorneys.

If you work for the Federal government, please immediately contact us if you have been removed or threatened with removal or suspension, subject to prohibited personnel practices, or have any matter that we may be able to assist you with, even if not addressed above.