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GGD-93-49R 1 (1993-07-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackix0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-253973 149530 July 9, 1993 The Honorable William L. Clay Chairman Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Post Office and Civil Service House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter is in response to your request that we review House Report No. 101-4, -nvestigation into the 1981 Firings of Air Traffic Controllers at the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center, July 1989, for its---, implications regarding the effectiveness of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. The report was prepared by the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives. We reviewed the report's findings as they relate to the Board's statutory mission of hearing and deciding employee appeals of adverse personnel decisions as established in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, as amended, and the actions taken by the Board subsequent to the report's issuance. Also, as agreed with your office, we obtained information on what action the Board takes in situations where apparent misconduct on the part of an agency official surfaces during the Board's appellate process. In summary, we found that the Subcommittee's report does not dispute the Board's effectiveness as an adjudicator of employee appeals of adverse personnel actions. The report expresses serious concern about the actions of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials in altering Chicago Center controllers' time and attendance records and concealing the extent of the changes from the Board during the process to remove the controllers from their positions, but it does not conclude that FAA's actions to remove the striking controllers were-not warranted. In deciding not to reopen and reconsider the Chicago controllers' appeals after the Subcommittee's report, the Board concluded that the report, and the new evidence upon which it relied, did not change the Board's position on the matters at issue. GAO/GGD-93-49R Merit Systems Protection Board 01 6, 1 LI ri 1_1 / 14 *5,so

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