While everyone is distracted with Obama’s latest criminal action of aiding Taliban terrorists, The U.S. Office of Special Counsel announced Thursday that it’s investigating 37 instances where the VA sought to squash whistleblowers.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announced on Thursday that it is presently investigating allegations from 37 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee whistleblowers at VA facilities in 19 states of retaliation for disclosing improper scheduling practices and other threats to patient care.
The OSC gives three examples of alleged retaliation toward VA whistleblowers they are looking into and were able to provide “interim relief to these employees” through requested stays to the particular VA’s in question.“Receiving candid information about harmful practices from employees will be critical to the VA’s efforts to identify problems and find solutions. However, employees will not come forward if they fear retaliation,” remarked Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner in an OSC statement.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), co-author of the 1989 Whistlebower Protection Act, said in a press release, “It’s important that the Office of Special Counsel is fulfilling its role here. Whistleblowers are usually at the heart of exposing a major scandal. They ought to be celebrated, not punished, for acting in the public interest.”
“In one case, the OSC requested and obtained a stay of a proposed 30-day suspension without pay for a VA employee who reported the inappropriate and continuous use of patient restraints in violation of VA rules and procedures,” the agency says.
According to the OSC, the employee had never before been punished in over two decades while working for the VA.
In another case at a different VA facility, an employee received a proposed seven-day suspension after conveying concerns to the Inspector General regarding inadequate scheduling and coding procedures at the facility.
Additionally, the employee claims that the VA downgraded the employee’s performance evaluation and reassigned the individual for revealing the concerns to the VA Inspector General.
In a third case at another VA facility, the OSC attained a stay of a demotion for a VA employee in December 2013. According to the OSC, “The VA employee was temporarily reassigned out of a position and then faced demotion after disclosing the mishandling of patient care funds. OSC’s investigation is ongoing.”
The OSC says the agency is separately looking at 49 disclosures tied into the scheduling improprieties and other potential threats to patient safety at VA facilities for a total of more than 80 pending VA claims.
only war vets should work in these kinds of places no exceptions ty
It`s getting worse by the hour with this bunch of Chicago thugs and Muslim loving goat humpers.
as corrupt as this government is you would think we are living in a third world country!
When are they going to STOP the slaughter?!? Just because the head guy is fired doesn’t stop the abuse! Good managers prioritize and see problems coming so money can be spent in a judicious manner and services aren’t interrupted. For ten years or more, administration at the VA have gotten ‘bonuses’. You can clearly see where their priorities are.They could send cards to all veterans that allow them to go to the doctor of their choice until they’ve cleaned up the cesspool they have at the VA’s across the country! They don’t speak Arabic so they stand at the end of a VERY LONG LINE!!!
They want to drive us all to retaliate
we need the truth told to us by the media and not what Obama lets them tell us
Ya lets brush it all under the rug… make believe it is not there… https://www.facebook.com/GodGunsAmericasRelationship
More Obama corruption these people need to go to jail so un American the law is not doing there job let’s get it fixed vote them out
Obama wants all whistleblowers jailed because he doesnt want anyone to know about his corruption
Tara Mueller- thank you for serving! And trust me,real americans care. Very much. We are under an oppressive regime that is so twisted that it hurts our vets! We the people love yall for real