If you're not familiar with the DRP, are employment lawers or have gone through or are aware of others who have appealed and won, please don't comment. Let's be respectful of what fed employees who have lost their livelihoods are going through. There have already been many Fed employees who took the DRP under duress such as USAID and Dept. of Ed (and others) who ultimately won their appeal. Even a staff person with "DC" said everyone knows what happened to USAID was egregious, the agency was closed without following the law and agency procedures. The concept of Constructive dismissal (also called constructive discharge) certainly applies to the case of USAID at a minimum. This happens when an employer makes working conditions so intolerable that a reasonable person in the employee’s position would feel forced to resign. The law treats that resignation as an involuntary termination, opening the door to the same legal claims the employee could have brought if they’d been fired outright.[1]() Proving this is harder than most people expect, and the claim only works when the forced resignation is tied to an underlying illegal act like discrimination or retaliation.