Federal Workforce

Court Delivers Blow to Federal Unions Fighting Trump’s Workforce Orders

Government Executive: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday overturned on jurisdictional grounds a court ruling blocking the implementation of three controversial executive orders taking aim at federal employee unions.

Last August, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson struck down the key tenets of three executive orders signed by President Trump in May 2018, finding that taken together, they “eviscerate” federal employees’ collective bargaining rights. Those orders sought to shorten the length of performance improvement plans to 30 days, exempt adverse personnel actions from grievance proceedings, streamline collective bargaining negotiation, and significantly reduce the number of work hours union members can spend on official time.

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