Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs
Excludes numerous federal agencies and subdivisions determined to have primary national-security-related functions from federal labor-management relations and collective bargaining coverage.
Section by Section
What each section does, and how they differ.
Determines that the agencies and subdivisions listed in sections 2 and 3 have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work, and that the federal labor statutes cannot be applied to them consistent with national security.
Amends Executive Order 12171 to exclude numerous federal agencies and subdivisions (including State, Defense, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Justice, parts of HHS, DHS, and Interior, Energy, Agriculture, EPA, USAID, and others) from coverage under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.
Further amends Executive Order 12171 to exclude subdivisions of the State Department and USAID that employ Foreign Service officers from coverage under the Foreign Service labor statute (Subchapter X of Chapter 52 of title 22).
Delegates authority to the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to issue orders suspending the exclusions for subdivisions they supervise, effective only if the Secretary certifies to the President that the labor statute can be applied consistent with national security.
The national security interests of the United States in ensuring the safety and integrity of the national transportation system require that the Secretary of Transportation have maximum flexibility to cultivate an efficient workforce at the Department of Transportation that is adaptive to new technologies and innovation.
Upon termination of applicable collective bargaining agreements, agency heads reassign employees who performed non-agency union business to agency business and terminate agency participation in pending grievance, arbitration, and unfair-labor-practice proceedings involving those employees.
Within 30 days, each agency head must report to the President any subdivisions not already covered by Executive Order 12171 that have a primary national security function and to which the labor statute cannot be applied consistent with national security.
Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.