Posted on 04/26/2017 7:15:01 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Some lawmakers want to give the VA secretary more authority to fire bad VA employees, including those who steal controlled substances.
“VA employees who illegally divert or steal controlled substances are harming our families and communities,” wrote Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. in a letter to the VA Secretary David Shulkin, on Thursday. “They should be fired and denied taxpayer-funded benefits.”
Rubio has introduced legislation to help the VA secretary to discipline, demote and terminate employees, removing some of the rules and laws that currently bar him from doing so.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability First Act has passed the House and is currently in the Senate.
“Drug addiction and opioid abuse has risen sharply in several parts of Florida, and I am concerned that the losses and theft will contribute to the number of deadly overdoses our law enforcement officials and first responders are working hard to reduce,” Rubio wrote.
Earlier this year, the Associated Press reported a sharp increase in opioid theft and missing prescriptions linked to VA employees.
More recently the department disclosed to another Florida lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, that five Florida VA medical centers, including the Orlando VA Medical Center, lost prescription narcotics in-house or in the mail in 2016.
None of the five VA employees linked with the loss of prescription narcotics were fired. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Look at Lois Lerner. Nice pension. Or that sneering Koskinen, who is still there.
Well, duh.
And Senators who arm jihadists and vote for amnesty for illegal aliens should not be re-elected.
The people of Florida screwed that one up last time, hope they don’t next time.
fire bad VA employees, including those who steal controlled substances...
WOAH!!!! Let’s not all get crazy now :)
“should”???.............what about “WILL BE”
So, I guess this means some don't?
Little Marco ....... Trump was brutal.
Underlings are. Queenpins aren’t.
That would do for starters!
How about a couple weeks of paid vacation to think about what they've done.
True story.
Family friend, former room mate of my wife, was a VA nurse in Florida. She was caught steeling meds and using them. She was allowed to go to treatment at $50k was reinstated and later went on full government disability pension for several thousand dollars a month.
Your government at work!
“How about fired, arrested, indicted, tried and sent to prison?”
Wow, that seems a bit harsh...NOT.
Government employees are harder to fire than a winning Kentucky school sports coach.
I will be happy to work for the VA part time at minimum wage. They could fire 2 full timers.
Really! That’s what would happen to anyone in the private sector.
Waterboy!
Waterboy!
Right.
Don’t need rule changes.
Theft is already outside the protection for civil servants.
She probably got off because her problem went higher than her.
Prosecuting her case would let lots of worms out of the can.
So she took a little ‘time out’.
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