Legal Opinion
Berlin v. Department of Labor
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 20, 2014No. 2014-3031PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
Under 5 U.S.C. § 7521, an agency may furlough an administrative law judge (ALJ) for 30 days or less “only for good cause established and determined by the Merit Systems Protection Board” in a formal adjudication. In this case, the Board determined that the Department of Labor had good cause for its decision to furlough its ALJs for a particular length of time in 2013. We affirm. The challenged furlough of ALJs, which was part of a program of furloughs throughout the Department and indeed throughout the federal government, was the result of a neutral, reasonable,…
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