VA Accountability Bill expected to be signed ASAP by POTUS Donnie. Yes the bill gives the VA Sec more authority to fire VA employees it also gives added strength to the employee in the appeals process – PB/TK
House Passes Landmark VA Accountability Bill – By Natalie Johnson / June 13 2017
The House voted Tuesday to make it easier for the secretary of Veterans Affairs to fast-track the firing of federal employees for misconduct, sending the bill to the White House where President Donald Trump is expected to sign it into law this week.
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Phil Roe (R., Tenn.) lauded the bill’s passage as a “promise kept to our nation’s heroes.”
“The single biggest success in today’s passage is that the veterans win,” Roe told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview. “The purpose of the VA is to provide care for veterans, and without question your staff is the most important asset here. You have to have a way to terminate people when they aren’t performing and this gives the VA secretary the ability to do that while protecting the employee’s due process rights.”
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