Posted on 02/24/2016 5:03:07 PM PST by Nachum
Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, said Wednesday an Obama administration proposal to increase accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs by raising pay for senior executives does not address the agency's deepest problems.
The proposal involves switching the classification of top VA officials from Title 5 to Title 38 of the Senior Executive Service, which would lift caps on how much the agency is allowed to pay certain employees.
But the move would also prevent those employees from delaying disciplinary action by appealing their punishments to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Officials accused of wrongdoing frequently bring their cases to MSPB in an attempt to avoid getting fired or demoted, a tactic that too often allows misbehaving VA staff to keep their jobs.
"The fact that even the labor-friendly Obama administration wants to cut the MSPB out of the disciplinary process for VA senior executives underscores just how much damage the MSPB is doing," Miller said Wednesday.
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Well that should fix things for our vets.
No, you make the execs at-will instead of merit. What idiocy.
Stop hiring ghetto hippos who shred veterans files.
People died when VA managers cooked the books to get bonuses, and these morons want to give them MORE money????
Agreed.
Good gawd. SMH.
How about saying "You're Fired" to the underperforming, bring in new people, base their pay on performance with increases given on merit?
The government solution to problems: throw piles of money in that general direction and assume that is all that is needed.
Usually to management.
with that philosophy, we should expect the very best care for our vets by making all VA employees millionaires, right?
A: Bonuses and pay increases!
It's HUSH MONEY, people!
As a former V.A. employee, i can tell you that it is the upper level management that is to blame, and to reward them with a pay increase, is tantamount to paying Jack the Ripper for each kidney he mailed to the police.
There is a phrase that escapes folks that the government threatens its employees with:
“Fraud, Waste, and Abuse”.
It is time to level that charge at the upper management.
They tried a system like you suggested with certain GS employees under the Bush administration called the National Security Personnel System which placed employees in Pay Bands. It was a failure as the ones determining who got pay raises were the same administrators that should have been fired. It actually made the “good ole boy” system more secure.
They need to send the entire VA system packing and start over. Libs have been in charge since Clinton, and the majority of the federal workforce is corrupt.
Get rid of the VA as it is NOW!
Let us veterans go to regular doctors and have the VA cover the cost.
Simple.
How about having the clowns forfeit their unearned bonuses?
Let’s reward poor performance!
That’s the ticket!
Find some nasty old Veteran who has a terminal illness and let him run the VA. He would just go around firing VA executives. Then, when they threatened him with lawyers, he could just laugh.
“Maybe your lawyer can dig me up and sue me!”
He could grind up every piece of paper and delete every byte of information on these VA executives and then just say that they never worked for the VA. There would be no record of them.
A simple solution would to fire those at the top and the new administrators compensation needs to be tied to performance. Why keep those that created the problems.
So then Obama is parroting some grunt whining “I don’t make enough money to do the job right”? “Pay me more, and I can then do the job I was hired to do.”
That’s stupid, and I’ve heard it before many times. I fired them. I don’t, and I never have put up with bullshit.
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