Several Bills Reintroduced

Meanwhile, legislation has been reintroduced in the House (HR-313), and is planned in the Senate, to expand sick leave rights in the first year of federal employment for recent hirees who have a military service-related disability rating of 30 percent or more. Under the bipartisan proposals, they would have access to 104 hours of sick leave for their first year of employment, to be used for purposes such as medical treatments for their conditions. That leave would not carry forward after the first year. Also reintroduced was: HR-280, allowing the VA to require repayment of awards previously paid to employees who later are found to have committed certain types of misconduct; and HR-340, to require a 15 percent cut in the DoD civilian workforce, and a slightly higher percentage from its senior executive ranks, over five years.