What kinds of actions may be appealed to the Board?
The majority of cases within the Board’s jurisdiction are appeals of adverse actions: removals (termination of the employment relationship for cause), suspensions of more than 14 days, reductions in grade or pay, and furloughs of 30 days or less. Other types of actions that may be appealed to the Board include: performance-based removals or reductions in grade, denials of within-grade salary increases, reduction-in-force actions, final administrative actions or decisions affecting an individual’s rights or interests under the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees’ Retirement System, OPM employment practices, OPM suitability determinations or suitability determinations by other agencies when that authority has been delegated by OPM, denials of restoration or reemployment rights, and terminations of probationary employees under certain circumstances. See the Board’s regulation at 5 C.F.R. ยง 1201.3 for a complete list of actions that are appealable to the Board. See que
