49 U.S.C. § 49107 — Federal employees at Metropolitan Washington Airports

(a) Labor Agreements — (1) The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority had to adopt every labor agreement in effect on June 7, 1987. Unless both sides agreed otherwise, those agreements had to be renegotiated before June 7, 1992. (2) Employee protection arrangements made under this section must guarantee that, throughout the 50-year lease term, transferred employees the Airports Authority keeps retain all the collective bargaining rights they had. (b) Civil Service Retirement — A federal employee who transferred to the Airports Authority, and who on June 6, 1987 was covered under subchapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5 (the Civil Service Retirement System or FERS), stays covered under that same subchapter or chapter as long as the employee works for the Airports Authority continuously, without a break in service. For purposes of those retirement systems, employment by the Airports Authority without a break in service counts as employment by the U.S. government. The Airports Authority is treated as the employing agency for those systems and must make the required contributions to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. (c) Access to Records — The Airports Authority must give the Secretary of Transportation's representatives adequate access to the Authority's employees and employee records when needed to carry out a duty or power tied to the period before June 7, 1987. The Secretary must likewise give the Authority access to transferring employees' records for appropriate purposes.