OPM outlined significant changes in the new appeal adjudication process, including the loss of federal employees' “categorical right” to a hearing. Notably, following the transition next month, federal employees who file appeals will no longer have a right to a hearing or a formal investigation. In the implementation guidance, OPM said removing federal employees’ “categorical right” to appeal hearings will streamline and speed up decisions in their cases. But federal workforce experts and former MSPB officials have raised concerns that taking those steps out of the process will erode due process for federal employees, and lead to OPM “rubber stamping” many appeals. “OPM claims that it is ‘streamlining’ appeals, but the result will be a less fair process for federal employees.”