2025 Legislative Recommendations
Below is a copy of FMA's 2025 Legislative Issue Briefs Executive Summary. Please click the PDF link below for a full description of each issue:
FMA 2025 ISSUE BRIEFS (PDF)
Advocating Excellence in Public Service
1. Congress should treat federal employees with dignity and respect, recognize the important work they do on behalf of the American people, while embracing targeted cost saving proposals that do not put our country at risk through misguided mass layoffs.
2. Congress should preserve due process for all federal employees and prevent the politicization of the civil service.
3. Congress should promote accountability consistent with merit system procedures, and provide managers with tools to deal with poor performers, while also pursuing hiring reforms.
4. Congress should protect federal employees’ compensation, health, and retirement benefits.
5. Congress should provide agencies and departments the resources they need and pass all appropriations bills in a timely manner.
6. Congress should pass bipartisan legislation to ensure proper utilization, and safeguard against potential risks, of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the federal workforce.
7. Congress should pass legislation to enhance training, support, accountability, and reporting with respect to remote work and telework.
8. Congress should pass legislation to establish and fund initial and ongoing mandatory training requirements for all managers and supervisors across the federal government, and provide for a dual-track system to allow technical experts to rise without taking on management roles.
9. Congress should authorize capital investments across the federal government to restore and/or modernize facilities to meet their operational needs.
10. Congress should allow Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) employees to make deposits for non-deduction federal service performed, in the same manner as Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) employees and former military personnel.
11. Congress should pass legislation to make cost-of-living-adjustments (COLAs) more accurate and fair, and allow FERS employees access to the Voluntary Contribution Program available to CSRS employees.
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