Executive Order Category Rationale

Justification

This executive order primarily reforms the structure and operations of federal government labor-management relations by excluding numerous agencies and subdivisions from collective bargaining protections under Chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code. The order justifies these exclusions by determining that the listed agencies "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work" and that federal labor relations statutes "cannot be applied to these agencies and agency subdivisions in a manner consistent with national security requirements and considerations." While national security is invoked as the rationale, the order's fundamental purpose is to restructure how the federal government manages its workforce across multiple departments—including State, Defense, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Justice, HHS, DHS, Interior, Energy, Agriculture, Commerce, EPA, and numerous other agencies—by removing collective bargaining rights. The order directs agency heads to "reassign any such employees who performed non-agency business" and "terminate agency participation in any pending grievance proceedings," representing a comprehensive reform of federal labor-management practices affecting thousands of government employees across the executive branch.

Secondary relevant categories

• Defense & Military Policy
• National Security & Intelligence