Federal Government Policy and Business

‘Clawbacks’ of federal employee awards, tighter leave rules up for Senate panel votes

The Washington Post: Federal employees would have to return cash awards they had already received if they later are found to have committed certain misconduct, and new scrutiny would be imposed on how employees use government-issued charge cards, under bills up for votes in a Senate committee this week.

The measure allowing “clawbacks” of employee awards is one of several federal workforce bills set for consideration Wednesday in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. It requires repayment of awards if the employee is found—by the agency inspector general or another senior ethics official—to have violated a policy for which the employee may be removed or suspended, or to have violated law that could result in imprisonment of more than one year.

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