All posts tagged "executive order"
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US sets out federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate rules
Employees working for US government contractors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by 8 December according to new rules issued by the White House. Guidance released on Friday by the
- Posted September 28, 2021
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Biden mandates vaccines for all feds and demands corporates follow suit
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that mandates all US federal workers and government contractors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face disciplinary action. He also announced plans
- Posted September 13, 2021
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About turn: what Biden’s presidency means for federal staff
As Donald Trump faces his last day in the White House, US civil servants are preparing for a new administration and a very different style of government. We ask three
- Posted January 19, 2021
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Trump’s salaries adviser quits over politicising order
The lifelong Republican appointed by Donald Trump to oversee federal civil service salaries has quit his post in protest at the US president’s new executive order that could remove employment protection
- Posted October 27, 2020
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Trump moves to extend hire-and-fire powers over civil service
Donald Trump issued an executive order last week that could remove employment protection rights for tens of thousands of federal employees, giving the president powers to hire and fire a
- Posted October 26, 2020
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Trump clamps down on diversity training
President Trump has issued an executive order banning government contractors from providing employees with certain forms of diversity training. The order forbids what it calls “divisive concepts”, such as training
- Posted October 5, 2020
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Trump curbs federal staff protections and union powers
US president Donald Trump has signed three executive orders that curb the power of civil service unions and make it easier to sack under-performing federal employees. The executive orders, which
- Posted June 1, 2018