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VA committee leaders target ‘1% of bad VA employees' in fast-track firing bill

Lawmakers are making the fast-track firing bill a legislative priority in a new session of Congress as the incoming Trump administration proposes similar goals.

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VA reinstated 100 employees fired under widely challenged law, paid $134M to hundreds more

Workforce

Exclusive Senate VA bill directs agency to rethink how it fires poor-performing employees

Veterans Affairs

VA, AFGE reach ‘historic’ settlement to reinstate, compensate thousands of wrongfully fired feds

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House GOP VA Committee members look to make firing of poor-performing VA employees easier

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GOP lawmakers say MSPB ruling ‘standing in the way’ of VA firing poor performers quickly

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New court rulings raise bar for evidence needed to fire VA employees

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Veterans Affairs

FLRA again sides with union on decision reinstating certain VA employees

Veteran Affairs building near the White House in Washington, Feb. 14, 2018. An internal watchdog's investigation has found that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tennis tickets and likely wrongly used taxpayer money to cover his wife's airfare for an 11-day European trip. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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VA employees owed reinstatement, back pay over accountability act implementation, FLRA agrees

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Veterans Affairs

Impasse panel rewrites large portions of VA's contract with AFGE

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

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A federal employee's guide to Trump and Biden's 2020 campaign platforms

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Veterans Affairs

VA's accountability office recommended 7 senior leaders for discipline within 18-month period

Veterans Affairs

Lawmakers declare lack of confidence in VA's accountability office

Veterans Affairs

VA's new accountability office puts whistleblowers at risk, IG says

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Veterans Affairs

New accountability office hasn't made a dent in VA's 'culture of retaliation,' whistleblowers say

Federal Newscast

HHS gets recommendations on how to better spend its money

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Unions

New VA bargaining proposals set up heated battle over employee leave, telework

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Federal Newscast

GAO: USPS' retiree health benefits fund could be depleted by 2030

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2016, file photo, people stand on the steps of the Supreme Court at sunset in Washington. Conservative groups are wasting little time in trying to deal a crippling blow to labor unions now that Justice Neil Gorsuch has joined the Supreme Court. A First Amendment clash over public sector unions left the justices deadlocked last year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. But union opponents have quickly steered a new case through federal courts in Illinois and they plan to appeal it to the high court on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, file)

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Trump admin requests expedited appeal of EO decision, as VA petitions accountability ruling

Veterans Affairs Secretary nominee Robert Wilkie testifies during a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2018.

Veterans Affairs

'State of the VA is better,' Wilkie says, but not 'good' or 'excellent'

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Veterans Affairs

Can VA's new CIO, accountability director finally spark a long-awaited culture change?

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Arbitrator tells VA to re-hire employees removed due to faulty accountability act implementation

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Federal Newscast

Trump taps health care investigator for new VA accountability position