Internal Revenue Service Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Labor union== {{further|Labor unions in the United States}} Most non-supervisory employees at the IRS are represented by a labor union. The exclusive labor union at the IRS is the [[National Treasury Employees Union]] (NTEU). Employees are not required to join the union or pay dues. The IRS and NTEU have a national [[Collective agreement|collective bargaining agreement]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/foia/efoia-imds/chapter400-inv/400-exhibits/NTEU_IRS_Contract.pdf |title=2019 National Agreement: Internal Revenue Service and National Treasury Employees Union |publisher=National Treasury Employees Union |access-date=March 3, 2022}}</ref> In pursuing administrative remedies against the IRS for certain unfair or illegal personnel actions, under federal law an IRS employee may choose only one of the three forums below: *NTEU, or *[[United States Merit Systems Protection Board]] (MSPB), or *[[United States Office of Special Counsel]] (OSC).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://osc.gov/Pages/ppp-faq2.aspx |title=Prohibited Personnel Practices (PPPs) |website=osc.gov |access-date=October 21, 2018 |archive-date=July 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702090044/https://osc.gov/Pages/ppp-faq2.aspx }}</ref> Employees are also required to report certain misconduct to [[Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration|TIGTA]]. Federal law prohibits reprisal or retaliation against an employee who reports wrongdoing.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://treas.gov/tigta/about_what.shtml | title = What is TIGTA | date = December 11, 2014 | work = Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration | publisher = [[U.S. Department of the Treasury]] | access-date=October 21, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.opm.gov/ovrsight/proidx.asp |title=Β§ 2302. Prohibited personnel practices |publisher=U.S. Office of Personnel Management |access-date=March 3, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/02/19/2016-03410/department-of-the-treasury-employee-rules-of-conduct|title=Department of the Treasury Employee Rules of Conduct|date=February 19, 2016|website=Federal Register}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page