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Executive Order 13836

Developing Efficient, Effective, and Cost- Reducing Approaches To Federal Sector Collective Bargaining

This executive order directs federal agencies to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements more quickly and cheaply, with stronger management control over workplace decisions. It creates an interagency working group to develop model contract language and negotiation procedures, sets target timelines of 6 weeks for ground rules and 4-6 months for full agreements, restricts bargaining over certain management rights, and requires public posting of all labor agreements.

Federal Register Open PDF 83 FR 25329

Impact dates

  1. OPM Director submits report to President through OMB

  2. Agency reports on operative term CBAs due before expiration/renewal

  3. Agencies begin using prescribed reporting format

  4. OPM Director prescribes reporting format for CBA submissions

  5. Agencies submit new term CBA to OPM Director

  6. Agency head review of binding agreements

  7. Agencies submit arbitral awards to OPM Director

Key directives

  • Establish Interagency Labor Relations Working Group chaired by OPM Director
  • Agencies with 1,000+ represented employees must participate in Working Group
  • Target ground rule negotiations within 6 weeks and term CBA negotiations within 4-6 months
  • Agency heads must receive notice at 6-month mark of negotiations and monthly thereafter
  • Agency heads must notify President through OPM of negotiations exceeding 9 months without FMCS resolution
  • Agency heads must review binding agreements within 30 days of execution and disapprove non-negotiable provisions
  • Agency heads prohibited from negotiating over section 7106(b)(1) subjects
  • Agencies must submit term CBAs to OPM within 30 days of effective date
  • Agencies must submit arbitral awards to OPM within 10 business days of receipt
  • Rescind requirements based on revoked EOs 12871 and 13522
  • Reports under section 4(a) deemed non-disclosable to exclusive representatives

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Interagency Labor Relations Working Group established
  • OPM Director designated as chair

Near term (90d)

  • OPM Director must prescribe reporting format for CBA submissions
  • Agencies must begin using reporting format within 30 days of OPM format issuance
  • Agencies must submit existing term CBAs and expiration dates to OPM

Long term

  • OPM Director must submit report to President through OMB within 18 months of Labor Relations Group's first meeting
  • Agencies must prepare CBA review reports at least 1 year before expiration/renewal
  • Ongoing renegotiation of CBAs under new timelines and procedures

Risks & tensions

  • 18-month report deadline measured from 'first meeting' of Working Group, not signing date—actual date uncertain
  • 4-6 month CBA negotiation target is aspirational ('should ordinarily be considered reasonable') rather than mandatory
  • Restrictions on section 7106(b)(1) bargaining may face legal challenges under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute
  • Non-disclosure of section 4(a) reports to unions could conflict with good-faith bargaining obligations
  • Directive to rescind requirements from revoked EOs may create implementation disputes at agencies
  • Order explicitly does not abrogate existing CBAs, limiting immediate impact
Executive Order 13836: Developing Efficient, Effective, and Cost- Reducing Approaches To Federal Sector Collective Bargaining · Executive Orders