By Susannah Zak Figura
Government Executive
August 30, 1999
- Year created: 1978
- Average number of decisions issued each year: 10,000
- Average time taken for first-level review: 120 days
- Staff reductions since 1983: 40%
- Total staff: 250
- Average number of lower judge decisions appealed to full board each year: 2,000
- Average time taken for full board review: 225 days
- Final decisions upholding agency actions: 70%
- Final decisions where board mitigated penalty: 4%
- Board decisions upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: 92%
- Federal supervisors who've appeared before the board: 11%
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