Board Decisions

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The claimant, Julia C. Leggett, filed a claim with the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (“OCWR”) against her employing office, the Library of Congress (“LOC” or “Library”) alleging that it unlawfully discriminated against her on the bases of her race, color, and national origin when on April 1, 2020, […]

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS This consolidated case is before the Board of Directors (“Board”) pursuant to a petition filed by the pro se appellant, Venu Pillai, seeking review of the April 14, 2020 Order of the Hearing Officer that entered summary judgment in favor of his employing office, the United States Capitol Police […]

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The appellant’s amended claim form in the instant case alleged that her employing office, the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (AOC), violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act provisions of the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), 2 U.S.C. § 1311(a)(3), when it failed to properly […]

ORDER The above-captioned matter concerns the provisions of the Congressional Accountability Act that apply the unfair labor practice prohibitions of the Federal Service Labor Management Relations Statute to employees, employing offices, and labor organizations in the legislative branch. 2 U.S.C. § 1351. The charging party (Union) requests that the Board publish the hearing officer’s January […]

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS This case is before the Board of Directors (“Board”) pursuant to a petition filed by the appellant, Eve Ferguson (“Ferguson”), seeking review of the January 13, 2020 Order of the Hearing Officer that dismissed this case without prejudice to refiling as a new claim. Upon due consideration of the […]

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS This matter concerns compliance with an order from the Board of Directors of the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (OCWR), which was confirmed and ordered enforced by United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. At the outset, the Board recognizes that in November 2019, it issued a […]

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The appellant, Jorge Torres-Velez, proceeding pro se, has petitioned the Board to review the Hearing Officer’s May 25, 2018 Order, which granted a motion to dismiss filed by the appellee, the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (“AOC”), as to some of Torres-Velez’s claims alleging violations of the […]

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS I. Statement of the Case This case is before the Board pursuant to a petition for review (“PFR”) filed by the United States Capitol Police (“Respondent” or “USCP”) of the Hearing Officer’s November 1, 2017 Decision and Order granting the motion of the Charging Party, FOP/U.S. Capitol Police Labor […]

ORDER This negotiability appeal under section 220 of the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA) is before the Board of Directors on remand from a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in United States Capitol Police v. Office of Compliance, 908 F.3d 776 (Fed. Cir. 2018). That appeal concerned, inter alia, the […]

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS By its decision and order dated December 7, 2005, the Board of Directors (“Board”) remanded this matter with instructions to the hearing officer.1 On March 7 and 8, 2006, Hearing Officer Michael Doheny held a hearing pursuant to the remand and subsequently issued his dispositive decision, holding that Petitioner […]

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The appellant, Patrick Rager (“Rager”), has petitioned the Board to review the Hearing Officer’s January 12, 2018 Order, which entered summary judgment in favor of the appellee, the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms (“SAA”), on all claims alleging violations the Congressional Accountability Act (“CAA”). Upon due consideration of the […]

DECISION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS This appeal is before the Board of Directors (“Board”) pursuant to the appellant Gerald Evans’s petition for review (“PFR”) of the Hearing Officer’s August 10, 2017 Decision and Order, which found unproven Evans’s claims that the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (“AOC”) issued him a memorandum of […]