NRC Headquarters - Rockville, Md. Campus in Rockville, Md. with metro train in foreground. (2013) Image: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
By: FEDweek StaffIn a report on an issue that applies government-wide, the inspector general office at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has called for greater management attention to the agency’s voluntary leave sharing program.
Like other agencies, the NRC allows employees to donate annual leave to co-workers in need of more time off for medical or certain other reasons, but the IG found that the required documentation supporting some leave recipients’ eligibility was missing or unsigned. In a look at 47 instances, it found 29 to be incomplete, for example lacking the required medical certification or other documents.
Further, “enrollment and termination data show discrepancies across different agency data sources because agency staff does not perform quality assurance checks to validate the data,” it said. Among the information it found lacking in some cases was whether leave recipients were still affected by a medical emergency throughout the periods they received donated leave.
“Complete, current, and validated documentation is needed to ensure employees with legitimate medical needs have fair access to the program, and that participation in the program does not lead to inequitable treatment by supervisors,” it said.
It said that agency management “generally agreed” with the findings and the IG’s recommendations to address them, although it did not provide formal comments.
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