Thomas P. Budnick v. Merit Systems Protection Board and United States Department of Justice

The Federal Correctional Institution in Miami, Florida fired Thomas Budnick from his probationary position as a correctional officer. The Merit Systems Protection Board 1 ruled that it lacked jurisdiction over Budnick’s appeal from this action. We affirm this conclusion.

After Budnick had completed two weeks of training classes at the prison, the prison warden wrote Budnick a letter of termination explaining why the prison had concluded that Budnick could not function effectively as a correctional officer:

Specifically, during your initial orientation and training, you were given an overall…