{"id":1822,"date":"2025-03-06T15:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:01:32","slug":"appeal-rights-for-federal-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/2025\/03\/06\/appeal-rights-for-federal-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Rights for Federal Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE member Anthony Cardillo, former Chief of the Dallas Field Office, U.S. Office of Special Counsel, Dallas, TX, offers this advice for those federal employees who believe they have been wrongfully terminated or removed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you were a <strong>probationary federal employee,<\/strong>\u00a0you can file a complaint with the <a href=\"https:\/\/osc.gov\/pages\/file-complaint.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC<\/strong>)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you were a <strong>career federal employee,<\/strong>\u00a0you may be able to file an appeal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mspb.gov\/appeals\/appellantqanda.htm#:~:text=Appeals%20may%20be%20filed%20by,appeal.mspb.gov%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>US Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB<\/strong>)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association<\/strong> offers resources and expert advice for federal employees such as this. To find out more, go to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/?utm_source=ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NARFE.org<\/a><\/strong> and look for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/advocacy\/emerging-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Emerging Threats to the Federal Community<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association offers resources and expert advice for those federal employees who believe they have been wrongfully terminated or removed from federal service. If you were a probationary federal employee,\u00a0you can file a complaint. If you were a career federal employee,\u00a0you may be able to file an appeal.\u00a0NARFE shows you how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/MSPB.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}