Fields v. Multnomah County

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• the Board has the discretion to determine the evidentiary weight of events temporally further from the employee’s resignation
• the most probative evidence of involuntariness is usually that which is closest to the challenged action
• where an employee shows by preponderant evidence that his resignation was involuntary, he prevails on jurisdiction and the merits
• “A decision to resign or retire is presumed to be voluntary,” and “[a]n employee who voluntarily resigns or retires has no right to appeal to the MSPB.”
• “[I]n measuring the voluntariness of an employee’s resignation or retirement, all of the activities surrounding his or her resignation or retirement, even events not immediately preceding the leave of employ, must be considered.”

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