Agencies Cleared to Apply Trump’s Orders on Federal Labor Relations

Federal agencies may now roll out President Donald Trump's executive orders that could make it easier to fire employees and weaken their union representation. Several unions challenged the orders, but a court ruling that blocked their enforcement was recently lifted after a federal appeals court refused to revisit the issue.  We've rounded up articles and resources from SHRM Online and other trusted media outlets on the news. The Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute allows federal employees to unionize and requires federal agencies to bargain in good faith with those unions. In May 2018, Trump issued three executive orders that instructed agencies: Not to negotiate with unions over permissive subjects—meaning that they should negotiate only items that are mandatory bargaining topics.