All posts tagged "executive orders"

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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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  Unions vow to continue fighting White House moves to undermine workers

  White House attempts to undermine federal employee rights and union power are wasting government resources and have made it harder to protect worker safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to

  • Posted June 30, 2020
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  US lawmakers “extremely concerned” about proposed official time policy

  Two members of Congress have written to the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to express concern about a proposal that could make it harder for federal employees

  • Posted January 28, 2020
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  US agencies curb federal workers’ rights after unions’ court defeat

  Union representatives at the US Veterans Affairs Department (VA) are having their representative work dramatically curtailed and face eviction if they don’t start paying rent on office space at the

  • Posted November 20, 2019
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  US Office of Personnel Management pushes for easier federal dismissal

  US agencies have been tasked with eliminating “unnecessary barriers to addressing poor performance” by March 2020, in a move that would make it easier to fire federal employees. In a

  • Posted October 1, 2019
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  US federal unions vow to fight executive orders after court defeat

  US federal employee unions have pledged to fight the overturning of a court ruling blocking the implementation of three controversial executive orders which diminish federal workers’ collective bargaining rights. The

  • Posted July 25, 2019
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