Equal Employment Opportunity (Eeo) Policy And Program Administration Form Sample Page 21
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54VA MEDICAL CENTER
POLICY MEMORANDUM 00-155
BRONX, NEW YORK
October 13, 2000
EMPLOYEE UNIFORM ISSUE AND UNIFORM ALLOWANCE
1. POLICY: This medical center furnishes and services employees’ uniforms. Uniforms are
furnished to employees only when it is in the best interest of the VA, AS DEFINED BY
CURRENT VA REGULATIONS GOVERNING UNIFORM ENTITLEMENT, and will be
authorized in accordance with 5 U.S.C., 5901-5903, and as interpreted by the Office of
Management and Budget. Uniforms will be provided by issue or by an allowance paid to the
employee.
2. DEFINITION: "Employee" includes both full and part-time employees of the VA Medical
Center, but excludes volunteers, trainees, and workers who receive stipend or salary from other than
VA appropriated funds, and other workers in similar categories.
3. RESPONSIBILITIES AND PROCEDURES:
A. The Chief of FACILITY Management Program is responsible for the overall program
administration which includes employees receiving uniforms, repair and replacement, processing
and accountability.
B. Program Chiefs AND PATIENT CENTER DIRECTORS will be responsible for insuring
that employees under their supervision receiving uniform issue or uniform allowance wear the
prescribed uniforms.
C. The Chief, Human Resources Management Program will authorize the payment of uniform
allowance on VA Form 05-4652, Request for Personnel Action, and forward it to the Chief, Fiscal
Program. The Chief, Human Resources Management Program will also issue VA Form 10-1148,
Employee Uniform and Property Issue Card, for all new employees authorized uniform issue and
forward this to Chief, FACILITY Management Program. PROGRAM CHIEFS AND PATIENT
CARE CENTER DIRECTORS MAY CONSULT WITH THE CHIEF, HRMP, FOR
INFORMATION ON UNIFORM ENTITLEMENT OF SPECIFIC PROGRAM AND PATIENT
CARE CENTER EMPLOYEES.
D. Employees who are issued uniforms will be required to wear the prescribed uniforms and
employees who receive a uniform allowance will, under no circumstance, wear government owned
uniforms. Employees who receive a uniform allowance will be permitted to wear government
provided scrub suits unless the scrub suits are worn for their entire workday; employees whose
uniform is a scrub suit shall not receive a uniform allowance.
E. Employees in psychiatric units, and in other units having patients who would benefit from
informal treatment atmospheres, are authorized to wear personally owned clothing in lieu of
uniforms part or all of the time while engaged in provision of patient care. Use requirement and
appropriateness of personally-owned clothing will be determined by appropriate service chiefs.
F. The Department Of Veterans Affairs will not be financially responsible for loss of, or
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