Now more than ever, we are witnessing a spike in misleading and mean-spirited attacks on federal employees’ right to due process. This is a vital and eminently practical system that holds employees and management accountable to our nation’s ideals of an apolitical civil service, and one that is worth fighting for.
Fairness and transparency are the two most fundamental principles underpinning the federal personnel system. Employees are hired based on their merits and disciplined or fired based on the proven facts of the case.