S 362
111th Congress
Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Administrative remedies
Department of Veterans Affairs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Judicial review and appeals
Labor-management relations
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the collective bargaining rights and procedures for review of adverse actions of certain employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Introduced: January 30, 2009
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 22, 2009
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-76.
Jan 30, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Jan 30, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1127-1128)
Jan 30, 2009
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Repeals specified exceptions to rights of certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees to engage in collective bargaining.
Requires a final decision of the VA with respect to the review of an adverse personnel action against a VA employee to be issued not later than 60 days after such action has been appealed. Subjects such decision to judicial review in the appropriate U.S. District Court or, if the decision is made by a labor arbitrator, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
What's happening now
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-76.
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