Court Opinion

ID: 9464314
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:30:35.7005+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:34.404043
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ROBB, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
In my judgment the objective facts, independent of psychiatric opinions, required the conclusion that the appellant was not fit for continued employment in her position. I refer to the facts stated in n.25 and accompanying text of Judge Tamm’s opinion, and those summarized in the Bureau’s fitness-for-duty examination directive, quoted in n.4. Given those facts I cannot believe that the Bureau was required to keep the appellant in her position indefinitely, and it is difficult to think of another position which she might have filled. Nevertheless it does seem to me that the relevant Federal Personnel Manual provision, coupled with normal compassion, should have impelled the Bureau to consider extended leave without pay as an alternative to separation. Because the Bureau did not consider any alternative I concur in the remand.