EPA employees were investigated—and in some cases disciplined or left the agency in the face of discipline—for a wide variety of alleged misconduct in the six-month period ending in March, according to a summary by the agency’s IG.
The probes involved employees including top political appointees, SES, managers, supervisors and line employees, it noted.
In the area of personnel management, they included confirmed allegations of: an SES member falsifying time and attendance records for a subordinate who was suffering from a serious disease and not actually working; and a supervisor allowing an employee to stay home on full pay and benefits for six years reasoning that “it was easier to allow this arrangement than go through the medical retirement process for the employee and deal with the employee’s union.”
Other investigations focused on issues including alleged sexual harassment, failure to properly secure a firearm, failure to disclose outside employment, misuse of a travel charge card, lack of candor to investigators, and more.
