VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act

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

Senate Veterans Affairs Committee leaders are moving ahead with their own proposal to remove VA employees accused of misconduct — after department leaders…

Workforce

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

Veterans Affairs

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

Federal Newscast

In this May 29, 2017 photo, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost speaks to veterans at VFW Post 4183 in Belleville, Ill. Democrat Brendan Kelly is trying to retake a Southern Illinois House seat that Democrats held for more than 30 years before Bost won it in 2014. (Steve Nagy/Belleville News-Democrat, via AP)

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

Veterans Affairs

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

Management

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FLRA again sides with union on decision reinstating certain VA employees

Veterans Affairs

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FLRA orders VA to reinstate employees impacted by initial accountability act implementation

Veterans Affairs

VA declares victory, but AFGE isn’t accepting latest impasse panel decision

Veterans Affairs

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)

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

Management

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

A scathing review by VA’s inspector general found the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection failed to meet the missions Congress gave it,…

Veterans Affairs

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

The Department of Veterans Affairs is developing new training and policies for both employees and investigators within the agency’s Office of Accountability…

Veterans Affairs

HHS gets recommendations on how to better spend its money

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, Health and Human Services releases 25 ways the agency can improve how it spends taxpayer money.