VA Publishes Code of Integrity for its Employees
The VA recently published a new Code of Integrity to set the ethical standards and obligations of its employees.
Ethics
Crowdfunding, Shutdown, Federal Employees and Ethics
Federal employees who set up a crowdfunding page may have created an ethics problem. Here is what OGE is telling agencies about crowdfunding and the shutdown.
Should Political Appointees Have to Sign an Ethics Pledge?
Recently introduced legislation would require federal political appointees to sign an ethics pledge upon taking office.
New Ethics Rules For Federal Employees
The United States Office of Government Ethics has issued a new regulation overhauling requirements for the executive branch ethics program. It comes at a time when the public indicates a low level of trust in elected officials.
Changes to Government Ethics Regulations
The Office of Government Ethics has issued a modification to its requirements to allow federal employees to accept free attendance at “widely attended gatherings” with a value of up to $375.
Federal Employees Reminded to Remain Mindful of Ethics in Shutdown
A note from the Office of Government Ethics reminds federal employees that even if they are furloughed, they must continue to comply with all ethics laws and regulations.
Federal Sector Ethics, Have We All Missed the Boat?
The current leadership of MSPB appears not so committed to their oath of office as to advancing a particular political agenda, a union bias or a specific value system. I think a person writing me as well as many other Federal employees have misunderstood the very nature of ethics.
Disaster in the Gulf: Politics, Ethics and the Impact on Federal Agencies
The Minerals Management Service is again in the spotlight. After a well-publicized ethics scandal in 2008, the agency that regulates oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is back in the news.
Ethics and Government Employees: How Do Federal Employees Compare?
Is government ethics an oxymoron? With an entire agency and numerous ethics advisers spread throughout federal agencies, one would hope that level of misconduct in federal agencies would be minimal. It isn’t minimal but a new report shows that the federal government is at least ahead of state and local governments in the ethics arena.
Government Ethics With a Sense of Humor
Government ethics with a sense of humor will seem like a misprint to some readers. But one government official has gone to a lot of effort to catalog “ethical lapses” of some federal employees with an eye toward illustrating how one can ruin a career, and perhaps go to prison, by failing to follow the dictates of ethical standards of conduct.
