3. Central Personnel Agencies · Notable · Needs Congress
Transfer the EEOC's federal employee section to the MSPB
Printed page 76 3. Central Personnel Agencies
“The EEOC's federal employee section should be transferred to the MSPB, and many of the OCS's investigatory functions should be returned to the OPM.”
What has happened
- Not started
No bill would move the EEOC's federal employee section to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Searched every bill of the 119th Congress in the Corpus for the EEOC and for the MSPB by name, and the 104 public laws enacted in the window; nothing. The EEOC's federal-sector jurisdiction rests on statute and cannot be transferred by executive action. The related record runs the other way: the MSPB spent 2026 shedding jurisdiction rather than gaining it.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Researched 2026-08-27.
Requires Congress. A search of bill titles in Congress and of public laws, from congress.gov (retrieved 2026-08-28):
- “Equal Employment Opportunity Commission” — 0 bills
- “Merit Systems Protection” — 0 bills
- “civil service” or “federal workforce” — 13, none touching the EEOC’s federal-sector work
The EEOC’s federal-sector jurisdiction sits in statute (42 U.S.C. 2000e-16) and moving it to the MSPB takes an act of Congress. What has happened instead is that the MSPB’s jurisdiction has been narrowed, not widened — see #117, where that is recorded with its Evidence.
- Action
- transfer
- Object
- EEOC federal employee section
- ID
- 115