Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendments Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-606
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2015-02-26
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: 2015-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-26
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendments Act of 2015</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 U.S. Postal Service (USPS) officer or employee 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: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 606 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 26, 2015 Mr. Tester (for himself and Mr. Schatz ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 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 of 2015 . 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 .