Presidential Memorandum 2025-02729 explained · Presidential Memorandum
Limiting Lame-Duck Collective Bargaining Agreements That Improperly Attempt To Constrain the New President
Signed: 2025-01-31 Published: 2025-02-14 Federal Register document: 2025-02729
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Presidential Memorandum 2025-02729 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 30 (Friday, February 14, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 30 (Friday, February 14, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 9581-9582] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-02729] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 30 / Friday, February 14, 2025 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 9581]] Memorandum of January 31, 2025 Limiting Lame-Duck Collective Bargaining Agreements That Improperly Attempt To Constrain the New President Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and Purpose. In the final days of the prior administration's tenure, it purposefully finalized collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with Federal employees in an effort to harm my Administration by extending its wasteful and failing policies beyond its time in office. For example, the Department of Education negotiated a CBA on January 17, 2025--3 days before I took office--that generally prohibits the agency from returning remote employees to their offices. Such last-minute, lame-duck...
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