Agencies should dismiss all civil servants, as per Trump's assertion
In a move that could significantly impact the federal workforce, President Trump is expected to sign a series of executive orders aimed at curtailing telework opportunities and collective bargaining rights for federal employees.
According to recent data from the Office of Management and Budget, 54% of the federal workforce works entirely in-person because their jobs are not portable. However, Trump's actions are expected to target federal workers' telework opportunities, citing GOP misinformation about telework's prevalence in the federal workplace.
The remaining 46% of federal employees who can telework still performed more than 60% of their work hours at traditional work sites. Changes to policies like telework typically take time to be implemented among unionized workplaces due to the need to renegotiate union contracts.
Trump's edict tasks the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with unwinding regulations defining "policy-related" positions. This could lead to a reclassification of certain federal employees, similar to the Schedule F order signed by Trump in 2020, which aimed to make these employees at-will appointees subject to easier removal.
The U.S. OPM played a central role in implementing President Trump's Schedule F order. Trump is now expected to sign an order aimed at reinstating Schedule F, a proposal that would convert tens of thousands of career federal workers into at-will positions.
Trump is also expected to sign orders reducing federal employee unions' role at agencies and federal workers' collective bargaining rights. This includes cancelling executive orders reviving labor-management forums at agencies and requiring agencies to bargain with unions over "permissive" topics.
Moreover, Trump's actions include an executive order rescinding dozens of Biden-era initiatives promoting diversity at federal agencies. The president is also expected to sign orders making it easier to fire federal workers, as he did during his first term.
An announcer at Monday's rally confirmed that Trump had signed an executive order making it a "requirement" for federal workers to return to full-time in-person work "immediately." This could affect the 10% of the federal workforce that is fully remote.
These executive orders, if implemented, could significantly alter the working conditions and rights of federal employees, potentially impacting the efficiency and diversity of federal agencies.
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