Saving NIST’s Workforce Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 19
- Latest action
- Mar 18, 2025
What it does
The Saving NIST’s Workforce Act would prohibit the National Institute of Standards and Technology from initiating or implementing any reduction in force or conducting involuntary separations of most employees until full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2026 are enacted into law, except for cause related to misconduct, delinquency, or inefficiency. The ban applies to employees in the competitive service, excepted service, career excepted service employees, and career Senior Executive Service appointees, using definitions from Title 5 of the U.S. Code. This moratorium is intended to protect NIST’s workforce during the appropriations process and adds to existing adverse personnel action…
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