{"id":64372,"date":"2016-02-16T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64372"},"modified":"2016-02-16T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T14:05:34","slug":"merit-systems-protection-board-were-not-coddling-poorly-performing-federal-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64372","title":{"rendered":"Merit Systems Protection Board; We\u2019re not coddling poorly performing federal employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that the Merit Systems Protection Board has released a statement in regards to their protections of the two Veterans’ Affairs employees whose jobs they saved when the VA demoted them. Essentially, the statement says that VA employees have always been poor performers, so the agency shouldn’t expect better. Like good little bureaucrats, they blame Congress;<\/p>\n

Like other judicial bodies, the MSPB typically does not comment on its decisions after issuing them. However, its posted statement says that it \u201cis required to apply laws created by Congress and legal precedent, as established by Federal courts, when adjudicating appeals. With respect to burdens of proof applied by MSPB, they are contained in title 5 of the United States Code. Moreover, it should be noted that the 2014 Act made no changes to these burdens of proof.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2014 Act did not change any statutory burden of proof to be applied in these appeals. Therefore, unless the law is changed, these statutory burdens of proof continue to apply, as they do in all other appeals filed at MSPB,\u201d it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The whole statement is on the front page of the MSPB’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The MSRB restored Linda Weiss<\/a> to her job in the Albany VA hospital after she was fired by the VA for failing to properly treat veterans there. Kimberly Graves and Diana Rubens<\/a> were demoted for scamming the VA out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, but MSPB administrative law judges restored them to their pay grades and salaries.<\/p>\n

So if you were hoping for cultural changes at the VA, well, that ship has sailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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