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"Kerry for President" Stickers Create Problems for VA Employee

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HUD
Wed May 7, 2008 9:39 AM

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The actions of a manager who was found guilty of two counts of discrimination does not interest the OSC but an employee who forwards an inconsequential email is pursued by the OSC and is subject to termination. Does this make sense?
The problem is that no one is enforcing the provisions of the No Fear Act which was designed to hold managers accountable for their actions. What was the point of Congress passing the Act and the President signing if it is not enforced? As I stated in my complaint: "The Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation (No Fear) Act states, among other things, that employees who engage in misconduct be disciplined. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a senior policy analyst at the EPA, was a driving force behind the creation of the no fear law. The system before No-Fear, Coleman-Adebayo said, has been anything but just to employees who suffer years of discrimination or retaliation at the hands of managers who are never punished for

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HUD
Wed May 7, 2008 9:40 AM

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their actions. She went on "The spirit of the No-Fear law was that managers were to face major consequences as a result of findings of discrimination against them. These are not victimless crimes, and for someone to get slapped on the hand when you have violated someone's human and civil rights, you do not have a right to work for the federal government."
The OSC is far more interested in prosecuting a rank and file employee who sends an email containing harmless political content than it is in seeing that managers are held accountable for their illegal actions.

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faa
Sun May 25, 2008 6:38 PM

Did it say anywhere that the manager was actually found guilty of anything, or only that the case was found in the other person's favor? This can mean several things, some of which find no blame on anyone, or find equal blame on both parties resulting in neither a loss nor a win. Finding 'in favor', depending on the charge, does not necessarily mean anyone was at fault or did anything wrong. Someone's perception of 'being wronged' may be conceivable by others, yet may also be deemed by these very same people to be so inconsequential and/or trivial that any further action is unwarranted.