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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…

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AP/Charles DharapakFILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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

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FLRA again sides with union on decision reinstating certain VA employees

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(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)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)

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

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(AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)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

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

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Lawmakers declare lack of confidence in VA’s accountability office

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Getty Images/iStockphoto/Kiyoshi TannoWashington DC/USA Mar 25 2019/Signboard of United States Department of Veterans Affairs(VA).The VA stands in front of Lafayette Square Park in the north of the White House.

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,…

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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…

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HHS gets recommendations on how to better spend its money

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

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