HR-1559 would extend the right of appeal to MSPB to many officers or employees of the USPS that are not represented by a bargaining representative. Image: photosince/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffAmong bills recently reintroduced in Congress is HR-1522, affecting federal employees who began their careers after 1988 as temporary workers and did not make retirement contributions in that time.
Under the bipartisan bill, they could make catch-up contributions to capture credit for that time toward a retirement calculation. That had been allowed for those hired previously but was ended by a law effective in 1989.
Another reintroduced bill affecting retirement benefits, S-727, would correct an anomaly that could cause lower retirement benefits for some CBP officers related to their inclusion in the special benefits package for law enforcement officers.
Also introduced were:
* HR-1559, to extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to any officer or employee of the USPS who is not represented by a bargaining representative and is in a supervisory, professional, technical, clerical, administrative, or managerial position covered by the Executive and Administrative Schedule.
* HR-1560, to require that not later than 60 days after the USPS agrees to a collective bargaining agreement that affects the pay or benefits of supervisors or managers, it must provide a proposal regarding them, and to make binding a decision of a fact-finding panel of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service if an impasse is reached.
* HR-1637, to require the reinstatement of all federal employees with veteran status who have been laid off and require quarterly reporting to Congress on veterans who have been removed from federal employment and provide justification for their removal.
* HR-1670, to expand and put into law the expansions of coverage ordered by OPM in recent years for in-vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technology in federal employee health benefits programs.
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