Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit group that defends governmental whistleblowers, warned that the case number could surge if a court order blocking widespread agency layoffs is lifted.
“MSPB may be heading for the biggest legal trainwreck in history,” said PEER senior counsel Peter Jenkins in a statement. “Long delays in MSPB decisions due to big backlogs threaten to reduce most civil service laws, such as whistleblower protections, into dead letters.”