Martin Pierce v. Merit Systems Protection Board

FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

A government employee challenges the dismissal by the Merit Systems Protection Board (Board) for lack of jurisdiction of his appeal from his agency’s (A) transferring him to another job at the same grade and pay and (B) refusing to reclassify the position he had held to a higher grade. We conclude that the Board correctly ruled that it had no jurisdiction over either of these claims, and therefore affirm.

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The petitioner Pierce was employed by the Air Force as an Aircraft Engine Me chanic Foreman, WS-09, working on the second shift. He was transferred to a…