Since the wave of U.S. government layoffs began, the independent agency that adjudicates a federal worker’s challenge of their dismissal has seen its case load skyrocket. The U.S. Merit Systems ...

An appeal by the fired head of the Justice Department’s bankruptcy watchdog program, who was seeking reinstatement, was ...

Katyal, a former acting solicitor general under the Obama administration, is appearing as co-counsel for an appointee who President Donald Trump fired from the Merit Systems Protection Board.

Washington — A bubble is quickly forming inside the obscure but powerful U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, which handles ...

Thousands of federal workers fired in recent days by the Trump administration may be able to use an appeals process to get reinstated in their jobs — and potentially receive back pay. But the process ...

The ruling, in a case seen as a test of the president’s push for expansive executive authority, cripples the operations of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board. By ...

Donald Trump can – for now – remove Democratic members from two federal labor boards, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday, handing the Republican president a victory in his efforts to bring ...

(CNN) — Federal workers are rushing to a little-known and understaffed office to try to save their jobs from President Donald Trump’s mass government layoffs, in hopes that it will be a bulwark ...

There’s a quorum again on the board that hears appeals of firings and suspensions of federal employees after a majority of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated an earlier ...