A Tradition of Improving Conditions for Federal Employees
The Professional Managers Association (PMA) was founded in 1981 by a group of managers from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We are a national membership association representing the interests of professional managers, management officials, non-bargaining employees, retirees, and any member of the IRS family interested in promoting leadership excellence within the IRS. We are a 501 c5 labor organization and as an association of managers, we enjoy a consultative relationship with our agency’s senior leadership team.
You can learn more about our work at our website, promanager.org.
PMA has a long tradition of improving conditions for its members and serving as a staunch advocate for the IRS when we engage other agencies, the Congress, and the public. Some of our accomplishments include:
Persuading Treasury to permit IRS to offer 20 hours of administrative leave per week to caregiving teleworkers struggling to balance their responsibilities during the pandemic
Ensuring the IRS follows a science-based strategy to keep its workforce safe during the pandemic and serving on its COVID Response Team
Pressing for additional training on performance management and the Service’s needlessly subjective leadership succession planning process.
Achieving an increased funding pool for performance awards from 1% of salaries to the regulatory maximum of 2%
Increasing the agency’s discretion threshold for waiving salary overpayments made in error due to its overly complex pay-setting system and helping more than 1,700 managers obtain those waivers (some were billed more than $100,000!)
Working with IRS to implement an entitlement for managers to receive 50% reimbursements for their professional liability insurance coverage
The time to join, if you haven’t already, is now! We are working hard to reintroduce our association to everyone, and the most significant benefits of your membership include:
Access to exclusive resources like our weekly legislative update which includes a digest of all significant news from around the IRS and government, webinars, financial planning, legal assistance, and much more
Virtual education and training through our professional development offerings, grants for professional education, and scholarships for members and their families
A mouthpiece on Capitol Hill advocating for reduced burden, appropriate agency budgets, enhanced retirement benefits, fair pay and COLAs, and a better government. We also hear from you directly with an accessible National Board of Directors as well as our Chapters throughout the nation. Your voice is amplified to the top of government.
PMA is embarking upon an exciting rebranding and modernization this year under its new Executive Director, Chad Hooper. Chad was an IRS manager for more than a decade and a graduate of its Senior Management Readiness Program (SMRP). He is a third-generation IRS manager and a fourth-generation civil servant so cares deeply about those working at the IRS today and also about the many retirees we represent. We are excited about the work ahead, ensuring the IRS is adequately funded and that our members have cutting-edge leadership skills in their toolbox.
If you’re at the IRS and haven’t signed up, please visit our site to learn more. If you retired from the IRS, we offer affordable lifetime memberships for just one payment. You can also follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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