The Personnel Appeals Board is an independent entity established in
1980 as part of a separate personnel system Congress created for GAO.
The Board’s founding grew in large part from concern over the inherent
conflict of interest in GAO’s role as auditor of executive branch
agencies that maintained regulatory responsibility over GAO’s personnel
system. Congress granted the GAO broad authority to manage its own workforce
but also sought to guarantee the constancy of civil service protections
and employee rights by establishing an internal board to
enforce and adjudicate those rights. The Board's mission - to
provide independent adjudication of employment disputes -guides the Personnel
Appeals Board today, as it has over the history of this institution.
PAB Updates
New Board member appointed
The Board is pleased to announce that Robert Hermann was recently appointed as our newest Board member.
PAB and PAB/OGC have moved
The Personnel Appeals Board and its Office of General Counsel are now located on the first floor of the Headquarters building. The Board’s entrance is room 1566 and the PAB/OGC entrance is room 1562.
Board certifies IFPTE as exclusive representative for APSS and VCA/LCA employees
The Personnel Appeals Board recently supervised the elections which were conducted regarding APSS, VCA, and LCA union representation. The manual election was held on February 8, 2012 at Headquarters. Voting by mail took place for eligible individuals outside Washington, D.C. Subsequent to the election, the votes were counted in favor of exclusive representation by the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE).
There were no objections filed regarding the election. Thus, on February 16, 2012, pursuant to Board regulations, the Board certified the results of the election designating IFPTE as the exclusive representative for the members of the APSS bargaining unit and also designating that the VCA and LCA bargaining unit members will join Written Communication Analysts and will be included in the analysts’ bargaining unit that was certified on September 27, 2007.
