31 U.S.C. § 753 — Duties and powers

(a) The General Accounting Office Personnel Appeals Board may consider and order corrective or disciplinary action in a case arising from—

(1) an officer’s or employee’s appeal of removal, a suspension lasting more than 14 days, a reduction in grade or pay, or a furlough lasting no more than 30 days;

(2) a prohibited personnel practice under section 732(b)(2) of this title;

(3) prohibited political activity under section 732(b)(3) of this title;

(4) a decision by an appropriate employee unit for collective bargaining;

(5) an election or certification of a collective-bargaining representative;

(6) a matter appealable to the Board under the labor-management-relations program under section 732(e)(2) of this title, including a labor practice prohibited under section 732(e)(1) of this title;

(7) an action involving discrimination prohibited under section 732(f)(1) of this title;

(8) an issue about Office personnel that the Comptroller General decides by regulation the Board must resolve; or

(9) an action involving discrimination prohibited under section 312(e)(2) of the Architect of the Capitol Human Resources Act.

(b) The Board has no authority to pause any reduction-in-force action.

(c) The Board may give a member or a panel of members authority to act under subsection (a). A decision by a member or panel under subsection (a) is treated as a final Board decision unless the Board reconsiders it under subsection (d).

(d) On a party’s motion or on its own initiative, the Board may reconsider a decision under subsection (a) no later than the 30th day after the decision is made.

(e) The Board must issue regulations—

(1) providing for officer and employee appeals consistently with sections 7701 and 7702 of title 5; and

(2) governing the Board’s operating procedures.