I have compiled enough evidence in this document to use for blowing the whistle on the vaccine mandate situation. The Department has changed regulations to claim authority to impose "emergency use products" on its employees, and did so illegally.
Additionally, they have used deceptive wording in their publications to trick employees into getting vaccinated, and those employees very likely thought they were getting an approved version, when in fact it was an EUA version. You do not have to get vaccinated.
There is also a very clear conflict of interest where the Department references and article as the reasoning for requiring vaccination as a condition of employment. An article written by several authors that are Pfizer consultants. AND in that same article, they admit it was paid for by the VA.
See document here and share far and wide, with your unions, senators and representatives. All evidence presented herein uses only official documents and publications from the FDA, CDC, ACIP, VA, Pfizer, and others.
My supervisor submitted the 10230a undue hardship review back in Dec which stated I cannot be accommodated bc I can't social distance more than 6ft and complete my job duties. It went to OCG for review and I haven't received anything back. My wife got her 0857 denial letter from HR RAC. She responded back with what job series/pay she is willing to accept if a job is available. She put that she will take nothing less than her current position. She has never received anything back from HR since. They are slow rolling this out. There are also multiple lawsuits from what I understand from nurses just at our local VA. The same people who they are forcing this upon were forced to come to work covid + during crisis staffing. Patients or other employees were never notified they were exposed.
We have boatloads of staff out for covid (they were vaxxed). They are literally asking an unvaxed person, they are trying to reassign, to work overtime to cover.
How do you get the OGC review? Been trying to figure that out so I can figure the appeal process.
Yes I know we have 80+ vaxxed out with covid right now. And some who are sick but won't get tested bc they've been vaxxed and don't want to admit they were duped.
So for the OGC review when my supervisor filled out the undue hardship form it was through the LEAF system. It went straight to OGC for a VA attorney to review. I saw an email from one that agreed the person couldn't be accommodated. They also reiterated that President Biden and Sec of VA did not care what it did to staffing levels. I think they want the VA to fail so everything can be outsourced through community care.
I read through all the guidelines and forms for covid accommodation and there is no process for appealing. There is for medical or physical disabilities but they created new processes and forms just for covid. Also when I first submitted for an exemption it was an exemption but somewhere down the line they changed it to an exception which has a "rule breaker" connotation. And we are also referred to a non-compliant employees.
Now there has been one employee who got theirs approved after it was resubmitted. Their job description had they did bedside care for a % but the supervisor resubmitted clarifying it was very small percentage so the OCG attorney approved it. So that's the only way to appeal that I know of is to just resubmit if your supervisor will agree to.
Ok, thanks for all that information. Very helpful.
I did inform some of the Nurses to do their own analysis using 0857n, and instead of the "Can be done remotely", mark that out and write above it "Can be done at greater than 6 feet", Then take their functional statement and write each function on one line. It will probably take multiple pages.
Once complete, that is one day. Keep track of every shift and put these altogether, as evidence. I don't know if it will help, but it surely won't hurt.
I also agree they want to close the VA down. The Air commission was blocked though, so I'm not sure what's going to happen.