Economy, finance and labor

Executive Order 13495: Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts

President: Barack Obama

Required many successor federal service contractors to offer suitable jobs first to qualified employees of the outgoing contractor.

Status: Revoked — by EO 13897.

Is Executive Order 13495 still in effect? No. EO 13897 revoked it.

What does Executive Order 13495 do?

EO 13495 sought continuity and economy when federal service contracts changed hands by requiring a right of first refusal for qualified predecessor employees. Labor regulations and contract clauses implemented it. EO 13897 revoked it in 2019; EO 14055 later adopted a new nondisplacement regime but expressly did not revive EO 13495.

Administration position: The order did not guarantee every worker a job: exclusions, qualifications, staffing needs and contract coverage mattered.
SignedJanuary 30, 2009
Covered transitionSuccessor service contracts
RevokedEO 13897 on October 31, 2019

Before and after

Before the order

Successor contractors generally had no government-wide duty to offer jobs to predecessor employees.

After the order

Covered workers received a first-refusal process until the order was revoked; a later order supplies a separate regime.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Labor SecretaryIssue and enforce rulesHistorical
Contracting agenciesInsert nondisplacement clausesEnded under this order
Successor contractorsOffer covered jobs before outside hiringNow governed by EO 14055 where applicable

What happened next

EO 13495 signed.

Labor implementing rules became effective.

EO 13897 revoked the order.

EO 14055 created a successor policy and kept EO 13495 revoked.