Posts tagged Executive Order
The Changes Begin: Trump Administration Takes Slew of Actions in the Labor and Employment Field
January 28, 2025 // President Trump did not take immediate action to fire the General Counsels for the EEOC and NLRB, moves that had been widely anticipated for his first day in office, although those actions are expected soon. Once made, the moves will further shift those agencies away from their Biden-era policies toward, to some extent, more business-friendly approaches with some significant caveats evident in the President’s initial Executive Orders.
Trump tells federal agencies to root out disguised DEI programs
January 27, 2025 // The American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents 800,000 federal employees, called Trump's order an excuse for "firing civil servants."
‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies
January 27, 2025 // At the State Department, the shutdown of those programs was something many saw coming. But some were startled by the directive that they report individual cases of people’s job descriptions being changed to “disguise” the DEI element to a special Office of Personnel Management email address. Some saw it as an order to snitch on colleagues. Others, who prepared for Trump’s return to office, had begun working months ago with outside nonprofits to archive websites they feared would be taken down by the Trump administration — including information on ending gender-based violence around the world.
‘We Are Hopeful’ Q&A with Patrice Onwuka and Kim Kavin
January 24, 2025 // Congress should consider enshrining the Trump-era definition for independent contractors, and/or consider ways to get ahead of the opposition to flexible work. The Employee Rights Act was a federal bill that, among many pro-worker provisions, sought to protect independent contractors as a counter to a national ABC Test in the now-defunct Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Portable benefits also provide a pathway for companies to provide independent contractors with workplace benefits without triggering a reclassification.
Trump’s new Schedule F executive order is smarter, but could still backfire
January 23, 2025 // The American Federation of Government Employees said that re-issuing the executive order was “a blatant attempt to corrupt the federal government by eliminating employees’ due process rights so they can be fired for political reasons.” The ink on the order was barely dry when the National Treasury Employees Union sued to overturn it.
Executive Order: Union tells federal workers to comply with orders but file grievances
January 23, 2025 // AFGE calls executive order eliminating remote and reclassifying many workers as a "blatant attempt to corrupt the federal government."
Trump Signs Order Ending Remote Work; Mandates Federal Workers Return To Office
January 20, 2025 // Union leaders express a strong commitment to retain remote-work options where necessary for some federal employees. Specifically, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Social Security Administration have already agreed to remote work (telework) arrangements as part of their current collective bargaining agreements.
Report Shows Extent of Tax Dollars Spent on Public-Sector Unionism
January 17, 2025 // The results of the 2024 presidential election were a repudiation of Biden’s “most pro-union administration in American history,” in favor of one that sides with actual workers, as opposed to union bosses. Congress has every right to demand oversight over the expenses of the executive branch, especially when taxpayer dollars are funneled to union bureaucrats that are working in the interests of themselves and not the American people.
(I4AW) Report Shows Extent of Tax Dollars Spent on Public-Sector Unionism
January 17, 2025 // After the last official report was compiled in 2019, the OPM stopped reporting the hours and costs involved in union-related “official time” despite repeated calls from House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx for President Trump’s 2018 Executive Order to be honored. Pushback continued in 2023 when Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) directed a letter to the OPM querying why the website reporting page went missing in July of that year, only to be told the site was undergoing “maintenance”. In March of last year, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduced legislation entitled the Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Transparency Act which called on a return to reporting on the part of the OPM regarding time spent on collective bargaining. In August, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill entitled the No Union Time on the Taxpayer’s Dime Act to curtail union activities by federal employees during work hours. All these attempts to increase transparency for taxpayers were roadblocked by Democrats in Congress and even now, the site still has not re-emerged – making I4AW’s report even more critical.
Federal Employees Face Telework Limits, Hiring Freeze on Trump’s First Day
January 14, 2025 // The inauguration of Donald Trump is fast approaching. Reports of Executive Orders on his first day on telework and a federal hiring freeze are now surfacing.