Federal employee whistleblower complaints to OSC fall by nearly half over 5 years
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Elizabeth Duan | February 29, 2024
Federal employees are filing fewer whistleblower disclosures, and reporting fewer complaints of whistleblower retaliation. The Office of Special Counsel, according to recent data analyzed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), saw a more than 48% decline in ...
Paid administrative leave still plagues the federal workforce
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PEER | October 11, 2023
We’ve had several clients who were put on extended administrative leave without any guidelines, any boundaries on that administrative leave. In a prominent case, we represented a former managing director of an agency who was put on leave by his agency, paid for three years, which was ...