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After reductions, VA chief says facilities can 'hire where they need and what they need'

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After reductions, VA chief says facilities can 'hire where they need and what they need'
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After reductions, VA chief says facilities can 'hire where they need and what they need'

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  • Government Executive·Apr 30

    After reductions, VA chief says facilities can 'hire where they need and what they need'

    VA Secretary Doug Collins told lawmakers on Thursday that the department has eight pilot programs underway to get new hires onboarded more quickly. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The Veterans Affairs Department can hire any employee it wants at any time, the head of the agency told lawmakers on Thursday as he sought to address concerns about staffing declines and new restrictions that have set ceilings on workforce levels. No VA facility is facing constraints on bringing in new personnel, Secretary Doug Collins said, who once again stressed that previous hiring efforts outpaced demand for health care through the department. He made the comments despite VA placing staffing caps on each facility that led to the elimination of tens of thousands of vacant positions and were designed to add layers of review to be surpassed. “We will hire every need that we have in the department,” Collins said before a panel of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “Our hospitals have the complete autonomy to hire where they need and what they need going forward.”Collins’ comments came following his push to reduce VA’s workforce by 30,000 employees last year and the subsequent vacancy eliminations. The reductions have raised some bipartisan

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