continues: I have further determined that it would be detrimental to the efficiency of operations at the Federal Aviation Administration and to the safe and effective performance of our national air traffic control system to permit the discharged air traffic controllers to return to employment with that agency. Therefore, these former federal employees should not be deemed suitable for employment with the Federal Aviation Administration. Nothing in the Directive indicates that there is any limitation on the period of time that the strikers are to be barred from employment with the FAA. We agree with our sister circuits that have held that OPM properly interpreted President Reagan’s Directive as imposing an indefinite bar on employment with the FAA. See Dehainaut, 32 F.3d at 1074 (<HOLDING>); Wagner, 783 F.2d at 1045 (“[W]e have no basis
holding that the three month limitation of faa  12 on a motion to vacate an award did not apply to a state court motion to vacate because the procedural aspects of the faa are confined to federal cases holding that mandatory arbitration agreements in the employment context fall under the faa holding that opm reasonably interpreted the language of the presidential directive to impose an indefinite ban upon the employment of controllers removed for striking not only from all faa positions but also from positions which interface with faa holding that the term commerce in the faa is to be broadly construed holding that the faa extends to employment cases for employees other than those engaged in transportation