Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — There is still time to send Valentine's flowers to your favorite officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. And thanks to some quick action by the agency's employees' union, recipients might actually get them.
In what even the regulator's management acknowledged might be seen as a heartless move, SEC workers were notified earlier this week that the agency was prohibited by law from using government resources for personal reasons — and that included accepting and delivering flowers to employees' offices.
The ban didn't sit well with SEC union chief Greg Gilman who quickly fired off an e-mail to his troops telling them he had demanded the SEC provide "the legal basis for the assertion." Pizza is routinely delivered to SEC offices, Gilman noted, so why not flowers?
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