House Democrats believe they’ve found a response to Republicans’ claims that firing federal workers is simply a return to merit-based employment in the government.
New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver will introduce a bill Tuesday that, if passed, would reinstate jobs and offer backpay to all probationary employees who were fired under the Trump administration’s directives to federal agencies, according to a copy of the legislation shared exclusively with NOTUS.
She’s calling the bill the Model Employee Reinstatement for ill-advised Termination Act — an apparent reference to a bill Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk proposed in January to make it easier to fire federal workers. Loudermilk’s bill is the Modern Employment Reform, Improvement, and Transformation Act, or MERIT Act.