HR 249
117th Congress
House
Labor and Employment
Congressional-executive branch relations
Employee performance
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Protecting Federal Workers Act
Introduced: January 11, 2021
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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.
Jan 11, 2021
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
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.
Committees of jurisdiction
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