If you are a government employee and plead the fifth about something you did at work you should be fired and lose your pension.
If you are a Gov’t employee you should have to forfeit your 5th Amendment rights with respect to anything related to your employment as a condition of accepting the job. Then, when subpoenaed by congress or the courts you will be hooked up to a lie detector. If you lie, or are guilty of crimes you forfeit all benefits, pensions, etc. Applies to contractors, too.
I agree! Basically, a government employee who pleads the fifth is saying:
"If I tell the truth, the people who pay my salary will have good reason to think that I've committed crimes."