A public interest group has filed a suit seeking to compel OPM to finalize rules to carry out changes in law enacted in 2016 that among other things would limit the practice of putting federal employees on administrative leave indefinitely pending a possible disciplinary action.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said that while the law called for implementing rules to be finalized by September 2017, OPM never finalized rules it proposed in July of that year “and still has no firm date for doing so.”