President Biden tried to reach an agreement that would allow federal workers to remain in a hybrid work arrangement through 2029.
However, this Monday President-elect Trump indicated that he will go against it.
Trump called the deal “very terrible” and said it’s interfering with his plans on how to handle the federal workforce.
The deal covers roughly 42,000 Social Security employees around the country.
The president said he wants to end remote work and that he would seek to challenge the rule in court.
“If people don’t come back to work, come back into the office, they’re going to be dismissed,” he stated at his first post-election news conference.
“Somebody in the Biden administration gave a five-year waiver of that, so that for five years people don’t have to come back into the office.”
In a statement later Monday, AFGE National President Everett Kelley said the union would fight any effort to strip those protections.
“We trust the incoming administration will abide by their obligations to honor lawful union contracts. If they fail to do so, we will be prepared to enforce our rights,” Kelley said.
Trump added: “They just signed this thing, so it was, like, a gift to a union, and we are going to obviously be in court to stop it.”
In the past few years, remote work helped the federal government increase productivity and efficiency.
Regardless, ending work-from-home seems to be the priority of two of Trump’s top advisers. Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are set toend WFH and reduce costs.
