Part of the Trump Administration’s efforts to improve efficiency, accountability, and transparency in the federal government include minimizing the amount of taxpayer-funded time that federal employees spend working for their unions instead of doing the jobs they were hired to perform.
This “paid union leave” is otherwise known as “official time.”
A Feb. 27 memo from President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management directs agencies to “authorize taxpayer-funded union time only in amounts that are reasonable, necessary, and in the public interest and to monitor its use to see that it is used efficiently.”
It also requires agencies to resume tracking and reporting on the number of federal employees and the amount of time they spend working for their unions, as well as tracking and reporting other federal taxpayer subsidies provided to…
