A bill to require the termination of any employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs who is found to have retaliated against a whistleblower.

Bill: 113-s-2606
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2014-07-15
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs

Employment discrimination and employee rights

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Government studies and investigations

Judicial review and appeals
Latest action: action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-07-15
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Requires the termination of any employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) who is found to have: </p> <ul> <li> retaliated or threatened to retaliate against any employee or applicant for employment for disclosing what the employee or applicant reasonably believes to be a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety (provided the disclosure is not specifically prohibited by law); </li> <li> retaliated or threatened to retaliate against any employee or applicant for exercising, or assisting another individual in exercising, any appeal, complaint, or grievance right granted by any law, rule, or regulation; or </li> <li> implemented or enforced certain nondisclosure policies, forms, or agreements that conflict with whistleblower protections and employee rights.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2606 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 15, 2014 Mrs. McCaskill introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To require the termination of any employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs who is found to have retaliated against a whistleblower.

1. Termination of employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs who retaliate against whistleblowers (a) In general Subject to chapter 12 of title 5, United States Code, including the right of an employee to obtain judicial review under section 1215(a)(4) of that title, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, any employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs who is determined under section 1215 of that title to have violated paragraph (8), (9), or (13) of section 2302(b) of that title shall be terminated. (b) Applicability Subsection (a) shall apply to an act committed before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act.