Federal Employees Procedural Rights Act

Federal Employees Procedural Rights Act - Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States, the Board of Appeals. States that the Board shall promulgate rules and regulations and establish procedures and take any other action deemed necessary and proper to carry out its functions under the provisions of this Act. Sets forth procedural rights for Federal employees subject to proposed adverse actions. States that an employing agency proposing to take adverse action against an employee shall give the employee written notice stating any and all reasons, specifically and in detail, for the proposed action. Provides the employee with thirty days in which to answer the notice. States that if the determination of the agency is to propose to take adverse action against the employee, and the employee files written objection with the agency, within ten days after receiving a copy of the decision, the agency may file with the Board a proposal to take adverse action against the employee. Sets forth procedures to be followed whenever an employing agency files with the Board a proposal to take adverse action against an employee. Specifies that an employee against whom adverse action is proposed to be taken may not be removed or suspended for more than thirty days, furloughed without pay, or reduced in rank or pay until the final decision with respect to that employee is rendered and then only in accordance with that decision.

Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in Senate" stage on June 3, 1974. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.

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