Executive Order 13480: Exclusions From the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program
President: George W. Bush
Updated listed agency units excluded from federal collective-bargaining provisions.
Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 13480 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 13480 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.
What does Executive Order 13480 do?
The order revised exclusions for specified components in Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Transportation and Treasury following reorganizations. The U.S. Code’s chapter 71 notes retain the executive-order exclusion framework and EO 13480’s amendments.
Before and after
Before the order
5 U.S.C. 7103(b)(1) permits national-security-related exclusions from chapter 71; EO 12171 contained earlier lists.
After the order
The order revised exclusions for specified components in Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Transportation and Treasury following reorganizations.
The U.S. Code’s chapter 71 notes retain the executive-order exclusion framework and EO 13480’s amendments.
What did the signed order change?
5 U.S.C. 7103(b)(1) permits national-security-related exclusions from chapter 71; EO 12171 contained earlier lists. The order revised exclusions for specified components in Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Transportation and Treasury following reorganizations.
What happened later?
U.S. Code — chapter 71 executive-order notes: The U.S. Code’s chapter 71 notes retain the executive-order exclusion framework and EO 13480’s amendments.
What does that evidence establish?
The determination concerns listed subdivisions, not all federal employees or all labor rights. Codification of the note does not establish a particular employee’s bargaining-unit status. The signed order states the original requirements.
Who had to do what
The Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Transportation, and the Treasury apply the revised labor-relations exclusions to their listed subdivisions; the signed order assigns no separate implementation task or deadline. Signed Federal Register text
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What happened next
EO 13480 signed.
Legal and source detail
How it works legally
The determination concerns listed subdivisions, not all federal employees or all labor rights.
Sources by type
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Primary and official sources
Orders, laws, court records and official implementation material.
- GovInfo — official executive-order record (opens in a new tab) Official record
How we checked this
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