The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday upheld the Trump administration’s ability to proceed with implementing three executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on the federal government’s labor and employee relations program.
Trump signed Executive Orders 13836, 13837, and 13839 in 2018, which related to federal labor-management relations. They dealt with collective bargaining, work time for representational activities, and discipline and discharge. Among other things, the orders made it easier to fire federal workers, who were given less time to improve performance after a bad review. The orders also more tightly restricted the use of federal employees’ official time.
