Improving Federal Contractor Operations by Revoking Executive Order 13495
Executive Order 2019-24288
|Signed on November 1, 2019
45th Presidency
What it means
Revokes a 2009 Obama-era order that required federal contractors to offer jobs to qualified employees who worked under the previous contract. The order directs agencies to immediately stop enforcing these worker retention requirements and terminate any ongoing investigations.
Expected impact
- Gives federal contractors more flexibility in hiring decisions when taking over government contracts
- May increase competition among service contractors by removing the obligation to retain predecessor employees
- Could potentially disrupt employment continuity for workers on federal contracts who previously had first-refusal rights
- Likely to be welcomed by business groups while facing criticism from labor organizations