Unions, Trump Administration Prepare to Face Off in Court Again Over Workforce Executive Orders

Government Executive: When federal employee unions and the Trump administration go before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in April over the White House’s workforce executive orders, their arguments likely will be similar to what they delivered before a lower court last summer.

Both the Justice Department and more than a dozen labor groups have filed written arguments in the government’s appeal of a ruling from U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, which invalidated key provisions of three executive orders aimed at making it easier to fire federal workers and reducing the influence of federal employee unions.

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