The Nation - News from July 20, 1988
The General Services Administration has been ordered to reinstate a senior official in charge of maintaining government buildings in Washington who was fired five years ago after repeatedly warning that many of the buildings had been allowed to deteriorate into hazardous conditions, the Washington Post reported. The Merit Systems Protection Board ruling, which can be appealed, also requires the government to give Bertrand G. Berube back pay and legal fees. The board ruled that GSA had failed to prove it had a legal basis for firing Berube.
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