H.R. 249 · 117th Congress
Protecting Federal Workers Act
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Protecting Federal Workers Act This bill nullifies certain executive orders concerning federal-employee collective bargaining, classifications, and training. Specifically, it rescinds orders and a memorandum that
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jan 11, 2021
Protecting Federal Workers Act
This bill nullifies certain executive orders concerning federal-employee collective bargaining, classifications, and training. Specifically, it rescinds orders and a memorandum that
- limit the use of unrestricted grants for union activity,
- specify objectives for agencies to negotiate collective-bargaining agreements and establish the Interagency Labor Relations Working Group,
- establish principles for the removal and discipline of federal employees and other personnel issues,
- prohibit government contractors and other entities from conducting specified workplace training related to race or sex,
- place certain executive agency positions under a new schedule in the excepted service instead of the competitive service, and
- delegate authority to the Secretary of Defense to exclude the Department of Defense from certain labor-relations requirements.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Protecting Federal Workers Act
Latest action (Jan 11, 2021): Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Policy area: Labor and Employment · Origin: House · Introduced: Jan 11, 2021
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.