Under HR-6538, VA physicians, nurses and other professionals would get the right to have unions file grievances for pay errors. Image: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffLegislation (HR-6538) offered in the House would extend to VA physicians, registered nurses, physician assistants, dentists and certain other medical professionals the right to have their unions file grievances seeking to correct errors in their pay.
“Currently, many healthcare professionals are unable to collectively bargain when they experience an underpayment or other payroll error. This bill will hold VA accountable and will ensure VA healthcare providers receive the compensation to which they are entitled,” sponsors said in a statement.
Other recently introduced bills in Congress include:
* HR-6462, to allow the federal employed spouse of a military service member who is being transferred to request a determination of whether: the duties can be accomplished remotely; they can be reassigned within the commuting area of the duty station their spouse is being assigned to, or; they can be transferred to a comparable job at the same grade level.
* S-3221 and H.R. 6195, to permanently raise the pay caps on overtime for federal wildland firefighters, expand eligibility employees to include National Weather Service meteorologists who deploy with firefighters for the hours they work on wildfires, and require land management agencies to report on staffing levels necessary to accomplish their missions.
* HR-6581, to require that federal employees and others alleging age discrimination need to prove only that age was among the reasons an employer took an adverse action against them, overturning a court decision requiring them to prove that the employer would not have taken the action except for discriminatory reasons.
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