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Executive orders directing the OPM Director · 15 in Trump 45 · 70 all terms.
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Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal employees, military personnel, and certain officials across all three branches of government, effective January 1, 2021 or the first applicable pay period thereafter. It supersedes the prior year's pay adjustment order (EO 13901) and delegates implementation authority to the OPM Director for locality-based comparability payments.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2020
This executive order closes all federal executive departments and agencies on December 24, 2020, excusing employees from duty, while allowing agency heads to keep essential operations open for national security or public need. It treats the day as a holiday for pay and leave purposes under existing statutes.
Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government
This executive order establishes principles for trustworthy AI use across federal civilian agencies, requiring inventories of AI use cases, public roadmaps for policy guidance, and mechanisms to ensure AI systems respect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. It excludes national security and defense systems while mandating transparency, accountability, and human oversight in government AI applications.
Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service
EO 13957 created a new 'Schedule F' classification for federal career employees in policy-making or confidential roles, moving them from competitive service to excepted service. This allowed agencies to hire and fire these employees more easily without competitive civil service procedures or chapter 75 adverse action protections. The order required agencies to review and petition to reclassify eligible positions within 90 days (preliminary) and 210 days (complete).
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal employees, military personnel, and certain officials for 2020, as authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020. It updates pay schedules for statutory systems including the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, Foreign Service, Veterans Health Administration, uniformed services, and executive/legislative/judicial salaries, while superseding the prior year's pay order.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2019
This executive order grants federal employees a day off on December 24, 2019, by closing all executive departments and agencies the day before Christmas. Agency heads may exempt certain offices and employees for national security, defense, or other public needs.
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
This executive order implements annual pay adjustments for federal employees, military personnel, and certain officials across all three branches of government, effective January 1, 2019. It updates pay schedules for the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, uniformed services, judges, and other covered positions, superseding the previous year's order.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2018
This executive order designates Monday, December 24, 2018 as a federal holiday, closing all executive departments and agencies and excusing employees from duty. Agency heads may exempt certain offices and employees for national security, defense, or other public needs.
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 5, 2018
This executive order closes all federal executive departments and agencies on December 5, 2018, as a mark of respect for former President George H.W. Bush following his death. Agency heads may exempt certain offices and employees for national security, defense, or other public need, and the closure is treated as a federal holiday for pay and leave purposes.
Establishing an Exception to Competitive Examining Rules for Appointment to Certain Positions in the United States Marshals Service, Department of Justice
This executive order places Deputy U.S. Marshals and Criminal Investigators in the excepted service (Schedule B), exempting them from standard competitive civil service examinations. It also allows these employees to convert to career appointments after three years of satisfactory service, aligning USMS hiring practices with other federal law enforcement agencies.
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.
Ensuring Transparency, Accountability, and Efficiency in Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Use
This executive order restricts federal employees' use of "official time" (taxpayer-funded union time) by capping union time rates at 1 hour per employee annually, requiring advance written authorization for union activities, limiting non-agency business to one-quarter of paid time, and mandating public reporting of union time usage. It also prohibits using union time for most grievances, lobbying, or political activities, and bars free or discounted government resources for union purposes.
Promoting Accountability and Streamlining Removal Procedures Consistent With Merit System Principles
This executive order directs federal agencies to make it easier to remove poor-performing or misconduct-prone civilian employees by streamlining disciplinary procedures, limiting opportunity periods for improvement to 30 days, eliminating requirements for progressive discipline, and restricting union grievance procedures over removals. It mandates data collection on adverse personnel actions and requires OPM to issue implementing regulations and guidance.
Revocation of Executive Order Creating Labor- Management Forums
This executive order revokes a 2009 Obama-era order that created the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations and agency-level labor-management forums, which were intended to promote collaboration between federal management and unions. The Trump administration cited inefficient use of taxpayer dollars and managerial time as justification, and directed agencies to promptly rescind all implementing rules and policies.
Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States
This executive order directs aggressive interior immigration enforcement, expands deportation priorities to include charged but unconvicted individuals and those deemed risks by immigration officers, seeks to cut federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions, authorizes 10,000 additional immigration officers, reinstates the Secure Communities program, and establishes new reporting requirements on crimes by removable aliens. It also limits Privacy Act protections for non-citizens and non-permanent residents.