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• Trump May again Seek to Strengthen Management’s Hand in Discipline, Labor Matters - January 15, 2025

• FEDweek

  A trio of executive orders during the first Trump administration whose provisions are widely expected to return during his second term sought to strengthen management’s hand in the federal workplace by stressing its discretion and limiting employee protections to the minimum required by law.

  In conduct cases, agencies were told that when taking disciplinary action, they need not follow principles of progressive discipline and need not take the same action in a given case that they took in a prior similar case.
  
  Agencies further were discouraged from using tables of discipline, told to consider an employee’s entire disciplinary and work record when deciding on a penalty, and told not to require that an employee have previously been suspended or demoted before a proposing official may propose removal.

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