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• MSPB to update rules to make operations smoother without a quorum - September 9, 2024

• An interim final rule slated for publication next week updates the Merit Systems Protection Board’s procedures to allow the agency to take more actions without a full slate of political appointees.
  
  Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  The Merit Systems Protection Board is set to both propose and implement new rules aimed at making it easier for the agency to maintain operations in situations where the adjudicative body atop the agency lacks a quorum.
  
  For a period of five years from 2017 through 2022, the MSPB lacked a quorum, preventing the agency that hears appeals of adverse personnel actions in the federal government from issuing decisions and hamstringing other operations. The extended absence of Senate-confirmed appointees atop the agency led to a record backlog of 3,500 cases when lawmakers finally OKed the nominations of two board members in March 2022.

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