The VA has fired nearly 500 people since POTUS Donnie took office in January. But since it takes anywhere between 6 months to 1 year for termination he can’t take all the claim. But my question is, with all the problems in the VA system have these positions been recently filled to help with the backlog – PB/TK
/ July 21 2017
The Department of Veterans Affairs has fired more than 500 employees since Jan. 20, when President Trump took office, according to a list of job categories of employees recently disciplined or fired.
The list, released by the VA on July 3 and updated weekly, has been a way for the embattled agency to be more accountable and transparent about its employee disciplinary process, said VA Secretary David J. Shulkin. The VA is the first federal agency to make this data on employee status public.
“Veterans and taxpayers have a right to know what we’re doing to hold our employees accountable and make our personnel actions transparent,” Shulkin said.
The VA has been under fire for shuffling controversial and problematic employees and managers instead of firing them, even after the widely publicized VA “wait list” scandal that rocked the agency.
Continue to military.com article: http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/07/21/va-has-fired-500-employees-since-trump-took-office-report.html
