{"id":64408,"date":"2016-02-18T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64408"},"modified":"2016-02-18T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:50:23","slug":"va-says-they-wont-reinstate-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64408","title":{"rendered":"VA says they won’t reinstate Weiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs won’t reinstate Linda Weiss, former director of the Albany-Stratton VA Medical Center in New York, who Judge Arthur S. Joseph of the Merit Systems Protection Board decided shouldn’t lose her job despite a demonstration of gross incompetence.<\/p>\n

VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson vowed to ignore the order to restore Weiss to her director\u2019s job and to award her back pay.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe today\u2019s untimely decision is unenforceable under the law, and does not entitle Ms. Weiss to return to VA employment,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Weiss, who was paid $165,000 annually, retired while the case was pending and could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
\nJoseph\u2019s order comes more than a week after the board issued a statement that the VA\u2019s discipline had been reversed. The statement did not provide an explanation or instructions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good for them, if they stick to their guns.<\/p>\n

In January, MSPB judges also overturned demotions for the directors of the Philadelphia and St. Paul, Minn., VA regional offices, despite largely upholding the VA\u2019s findings of wrongdoing. In those cases, as with Weiss, judges noted the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act only allows them to rule on whether a punishment is appropriate, as opposed to allowing them to offer a lesser penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf (the act) did not prohibit it, I would mitigate the penalty,\u201d Joseph wrote in his Weiss ruling. \u201cHowever, because that is not allowed, the only option is to reverse the action outright.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, whatever, judge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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