Download or read book Addressing Continued Whistleblower Retaliation Within Va written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing continued whistleblower retaliation within VA : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, Monday, April 13, 2015.

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Download or read book Addressing Continued Whistleblower Retaliation Within VA written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Whistleblower Protection written by Michael Brostek and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on the awareness and level of confidence that Veterans Administration (VA) employees, particularly medical employees, have regarding Whistleblower Protection (WP). Whistleblowing refers to Federal employees who report on misconduct in their agency. Fear of reprisal might deter employees from reporting misconduct. This report: reviews actions VA has taken since Oct. 29, 1994 -- the enactment of the 1994 WP Act amend. -- to inform its employees about their rights to protection against reprisal when reporting misconduct; evaluates the extent to which VA employees are aware of their rights to such protection; and evaluates the extent to which VA employees are willing to report misconduct in VA operations.

Download or read book Whistleblower Protection written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) whistleblower protection, focusing on the: (1) actions VA has taken since October 29, 1994--the enactment of the 1994 Whistleblower Protection Act amendments--to inform its employees about their rights to protection against reprisal when reporting misconduct; (2) extent to which VA employees are aware of their rights to such protection; (3) extent to which VA employees are willing to report misconduct in VA operations, should they become aware of it; and (4) number and disposition of whistleblower reprisal complaints filed by VA employees with agencies responsible for providing whistleblower protection.

Download or read book Office of Accountability Whistleblower Protection written by United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Office of Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VA Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP) was established in 2017 to improve VA’s ability to hold employees accountable and enhance protections for whistleblowers.1 This goal was to be accomplished, in part, by expanding VA’s ability to hold senior executives accountable for specified misconduct; preventing retaliation against whistleblowers and initiating action against supervisors who retaliate; and addressing senior executives’ poor performance. The OIG’s review focused on answering the following questions that emerged from these complaints and allegations: 1. Whether the OAWP was exercising its authority in accordance with the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 and other applicable laws 2. Whether the OAWP conducted adequate, thorough, and procedurally fair investigations of matters it investigated 3. Whether VA employees were held accountable by making appropriate use of the authorities provided in the Act 4. Whether the OAWP was adequately protecting whistleblowers from retaliation as required by the Act and other applicable laws 5. Whether VA complied with other requirements of the Act, including making timely and accurate reports to Congress.

Download or read book Whistleblower Protection written by United States Accounting Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GGD-00-70 Whistleblower Protection: VA Did Little Until Recently to Inform Employees About Their Rights

Download or read book Whistleblower Protection written by United States Government Accountability and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workers who "blow the whistle" on prohibited or unlawful practices that they discover during their employment can play an important role in the enforcement of federal laws. However, these whistleblowers may also risk reprisals from their employers, sometimes being demoted, reassigned, or fired. Federal laws establish whistleblower protection processes, whereby workers who believe that they have faced retaliation for blowing the whistle can report their allegations to the appropriate federal agency, which then determines the merit of their claims. The Whistleblower Protection Program at the Department of Labor's (Labor) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is responsible for receiving and investigating most whistleblower complaints filed by nonfederal workers. For over 20 years, we have reported that OSHA has focused too little attention on the whistleblower program.1 Most recently, in January 2009, we reported that OSHA has struggled to provide investigators with the skills and resources they need to do their jobs, and has not developed adequate internal controls to ensure that criteria and standards for investigating complaints are consistently followed across its regions. At that time, we recommended that OSHA take several actions, including ensuring that investigators have necessary equipment and enhancing its audit program to provide for independence and accountability. In this context, you asked us to update our review of the program and report on OSHA's efforts to make improvements, including implementing our recommendations. We addressed the following research questions: (1) What steps have been taken to ensure that whistleblower investigators have the necessary training and equipment to do their jobs? (2) To what extent does the whistleblower program have adequate internal controls to ensure effective and efficient investigations?

Download or read book VA Whistleblowers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Whistleblowing and Retaliation in the Department of Veterans Affairs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Whistleblower protection VA did little until recently to inform employees about their rights report to the Chairman Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Veterans Affairs House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Va Whistleblowers written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VA whistleblowers: exposing inadequate service provided to veterans and ensuring appropriate accountability : hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, Tuesday, July 8, 2014.

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Activities of the Committee on Veterans Affairs of the House of Representatives During the Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Whistleblower s Handbook written by Stephen M. Kohn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED IN MARCH 2013 to include the historic $104-million Bradley Birkenfeld whistleblower case and more! From the nation’s leading whistleblower attorney, comes the third edition of the first-ever consumer guide to whistleblowing. In The Whistleblower’s Handbook, Stephen Martin Kohn explains nearly all federal and state laws regarding whistleblowing. In the step-by-step bulk of the book, he also presents twenty-one rules for whistleblowers.