Spring v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
492 F.2d 1053 · 1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1995
1 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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Applies 5 U.S.C. § 5595
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“§ 550.705 Failure to accept assignment. When an employee is separated because he declines to accept assignment to another commuting area, the separation is an involuntary separation not by removal for cause on charges of misconduct, delinquency, or inefficiency for purpose of entitlement to severance pay, unless his position description or other written agreement or understanding provides for these assignments. § 550.706 Resignation in lieu of involuntary separation. (a) Except as provided for in paragraph (b) of this section, an employee who is separated because of resignation is deemed to have been involuntarily separated for purposes of entitlement to severance pay, if he has not declined an offer of an equivalent position under 550.701(b)(2), when he is separated because of resignation (1) after receiving a specific notice in writing by his agency that he is to be involuntarily separated not by removal for cause on charges of misconduct, delinquency or inefficiency * * * and (3) after receipt of a notice by his agency proposing to separate him for declining to accompany his activity when it is to be moved to another commuting area because of a transfer of function and when all positions in his competitive area are to be abolished or transferred to another commuting area within a period of not more than 1 year. (b) When the facts and circumstances available to an agency show that a resignation under paragraph (a) of this section is unrelated to the issuance of one of the n”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under regulations prescribed by the President or such officer or agency as he may designate, an employee who— (1) has been employed currently for a continuous period of at least 12 months; and (2) is involuntarily separated from the service, not by removal for cause on charges of misconduct, delinquency, or inefficiency; is entitled to be paid severance pay in regular pay periods by the agency from which separated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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