A federal agency apparently interprets union-backed civil service protections to be so strong that employees, and even interns, can’t be fired for work-related misconduct unless they have also been convicted of it in a court of law.
That would mean a federal employee couldn’t be sacked for coming in to work drunk, not showing up at all, or anything else that is not a crime — or is a crime but is unlikely to be independently pursued by criminal prosecutors.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was unable to sustain a firing when its inspector general determined that an intern took two housing project units for herself, one of which she sublet out to someone else, and then lied about it.
Source: The Daily Caller
Source: The Daily Caller
3 comments:
This blatant violation is just the tip of the iceberg of wrongdoing in civilian government service. It is rife with petty criminals like this one. Not so petty, too.
For HUD to have fired only 5 of 7300 employees in 2013 says that they either have a phenomenally efficient and honest workforce, or, much more likely, are mired in a Catch 22 labyrinth with far too many policy failures or absences.
And this is a main reason why the federal government is in such a mess today. Too many do little and are incompetent but still keep their jobs.
The unions have destroyed America!
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