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11-09-2015, 05:17 PM
EPA Gave Paid Leave to Drug and Child Sex Offenders
Eight employees racked up 20,926 hours of paid leave totaling $1,096,868
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
Drug and child sex offenders received paid administrative leave from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new audit.
The agency’s inspector general found the EPA rehired a child sex offender after they were put on leave for violating probation, in one example of misuse of administrative leave that cost taxpayers over $1 million.
“Our analysis shows that the EPA’s use of administrative leave appears disproportionate when compared to U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance related to unacceptable performance and misconduct,” the inspector general said in the audit, released Monday. “According to Office of Personnel Management guidance, administrative leave should generally be limited to situations involving brief absences and not be used for an extended period of time. The cases reviewed involved administrative leave of 4 months or more for all but one of the employees included in the audit.”
“We do not consider 4 months or more to be a brief absence,” they said.
Read more (http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-gave-paid-leave-to-drug-and-child-sex-offenders/)
Eight employees racked up 20,926 hours of paid leave totaling $1,096,868
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
Drug and child sex offenders received paid administrative leave from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new audit.
The agency’s inspector general found the EPA rehired a child sex offender after they were put on leave for violating probation, in one example of misuse of administrative leave that cost taxpayers over $1 million.
“Our analysis shows that the EPA’s use of administrative leave appears disproportionate when compared to U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance related to unacceptable performance and misconduct,” the inspector general said in the audit, released Monday. “According to Office of Personnel Management guidance, administrative leave should generally be limited to situations involving brief absences and not be used for an extended period of time. The cases reviewed involved administrative leave of 4 months or more for all but one of the employees included in the audit.”
“We do not consider 4 months or more to be a brief absence,” they said.
Read more (http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-gave-paid-leave-to-drug-and-child-sex-offenders/)