Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendments Act

Bill: 114-hr-1198
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2015-03-02
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Labor-management relations

Merit Systems Protection Board

Postal service

U.S. Postal Service
Latest action: action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendments Act</strong> </p> <p>Extends federal employee protections against adverse personnel actions, including the right to appeal such actions to the Merit Systems Protection Board, to any officer or employee of the U.S. Postal Service 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.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1198 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2015 Mr. Connolly (for himself, Mr. Joyce , Mr. Keating , Mr. Grijalva , Mr. Grayson , Mr. Murphy of Florida , Mr. Cartwright , Mr. Tonko , Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico , Mr. Pocan , Ms. Slaughter , Mr. Welch , and Ms. Brown of Florida ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform A BILL To extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to certain employees of the United States Postal Service.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendments Act . 2. Right of appeal to Merit Systems Protection Board Section 1005(a)(4)(A)(ii)(I) of title 39, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: (I) is an officer or employee of the Postal Service who— (aa) is not represented by a bargaining representative recognized under section 1203; and (bb) is in a supervisory, professional, technical, clerical, administrative, or managerial position covered by the Executive and Administrative Schedule; and .