Exclusions From the Federal Labor-management Relations Program
Headline: Excludes Intelligence and Security Subdivisions from Federal Labor Relations Program
What it does: Agencies must treat the listed subdivisions as exempt from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program.
- Exempts listed subdivisions from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program.
- Affects employees who perform intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work.
- Stops applying federal labor law (chapter 71) to those subdivisions for national security.
Summary
This order declares specific parts of the Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Transportation, and the Treasury to be primarily focused on intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work and therefore excluded from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program.
It lists the named offices and subdivisions that are exempt and states that chapter 71 of title 5 cannot be applied to them consistent with national security, changing which workers are covered by federal labor rules.
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