Federal Government Policy and Business

Senate Panel Requests Information on Whistleblower Retaliation at TSA

Government Executive: The leadership of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is demanding information from the Transportation Security Administration on its efforts to prevent whistleblower retaliation and to promote merit-based decision-making after the agency received poor scores on an annual employee survey.

Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., and Ranking Member Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sent a letter to TSA Administrator David Pekoske asking him to brief committee staff on the agency’s whistleblower protections and to address concerns about personal and political favoritism. They cited the agency’s poor scores on these topics in the Office of Personnel Management’s annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

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