LEGISLATIVE ACTION

Prevent an agency from reducing its workforce by 5% or greater in a given fiscal year without itself conducting a full impact analysis of those cuts on the agency's ability to carry out its mission, and GAO evaluating the accuracy of that evaluation.

Amend 5 USC 3101 ("Each Executive agency, military department, and the government of the District of Columbia may employ such number of employees of the various classes recognized by chapter 51 of this title as Congress may appropriate for from year to year."), the general authority provision that allows the government to employ, from a 'may employ' to a '*shall* employ', and requires an agency to justify their inability or refusal to comply with the requirement.

Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to end the tax subsidy for employer efforts to influence their workers' exercise of their rights around labor organizations and engaging in collective action.

Rescind President Trump’s Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs Executive Order (EO) issued on March 27, 2025, and restore collective bargaining rights to 1.5 million federal employees targeted by the EO.

Require a cost-benefit analysis to be submitted to Congress to ensure that any attempt to move federal agencies is appropriately analyzed to guarantee it is in the best interest of the taxpayer and the agency’s mission.

Enshrine into law that Transportation Security Officers receive the same basic rights afforded to all other federal workers, such as collective bargaining rights, and ensure that TSOs can advocate for workplace improvements without fear of retaliation.

If enacted would allow hardworking civil servants to return to the important work of serving the American people.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (NJ-10) introduced the in the House to reinstate federal employees who were unjustly fired by Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative that targeted federal workers. In addition to rehiring these workers, the MERIT Act gives them the back pay they deserve.

Reinstate veterans who were fired from their jobs a during the Trump Administration and DOGE purge of federal employees.

Include mandatory overtime hours worked into the calculation of retirement benefits to ensure federal firefighters are eligible for the same full and fair retirement benefits as their state and local counterparts.

Help narrow the nearly 25% pay gap between federal and non-federal workers by providing a 4.3% pay raise in January 2026 that would be divided between a 3.3% across-the-board increase and a 1% locality increase that would vary geographically.

Protect the federal workforce from politicization by preventing federal employees from being reclassified outside the merit-based competitive service without prior authorization from Congress and limiting employee conversions from the competitive to excepted service 

Revise the formula used to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for annuities paid under the Federal Employees Retirement System to achieve parity with COLAs paid under the Civil Service Retirement System