Last week, FMA joined 18 colleagues of the Federal-Postal Coalition on a letter to Congress to highlight the immediate need to renew the leave provisions provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and expand them to all federal workers. The letter, sent on February 3, was sent to all members of the 117th Congress.

The 19 organizations who signed the letter urged Congress to immediately and retroactively renew FFCRA in order to build upon its success. Specific requests, in addition to renewing the program retroactively, are to: extend critical benefits of sick and family leave to all federal workers; provide parity to all federal workers; and, provide adequate funding to the Postal Service to support FFCRA leave. 

The Federal-Postal Coalition is an alliance of more than 30 national member organizations who collectively represent more than five million federal and postal workers, retirees and their dependents across the country.