Monday, July 23, 2018

GAO Report: VA Whistleblowers 10 Times More Likely To Be Punished

A GAO report published yesterday blew apart VA assertions of fairness by showing VA whistleblowers are ten times more likely to be punished than peers who say nothing.
The report also revealed senior VA managers are sometimes not held accountable for substantiated misconduct and that sometimes those same managers are allowed to investigate themselves.
Let me put that another way.
There is a fox. That fox is guarding the henhouse. It sometimes guards the henhouse from inside the chicken coup. Other times, it guards the hens by putting the hen right into its mouth.
No wonder the agency has such a hard time finding employees. It may not be as related to the public-private pay gap as some VA officials may have you believe.

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