The Department of Veterans Affairs was justified in firing a Texas physician who sought whistleblower protections after she complained to senior officials about not receiving a promotion, a federal circuit court panel decided Friday.
Neena Biswas argued the VA violated the Whistleblower Protection Act when officials directed her to bring her complaints about being turned down for a job to her supervisors, not higher-level personnel. A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the VA’s actions were “contrary to the law” and that some of Biswas’s complaints were protected, but that the agency’s “error ...
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