The Biden administration will require large federal agencies to designate employees to serve as their labor advisors and oversee federal contractors’ compliance with federal labor and employment laws.
Labor advisors at federal agencies are career officials who help agency employees and federal contractors follow federal contract, employment and labor laws and liaise with enforcement agencies like the Labor Department. But although federal regulations covering government contracting often stipulate that tasks should be performed by an agency’s labor advisor, there is no requirement that agencies designate an employee to serve in that role, and many operate without one.
In a memo issued last week, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh changed that, requiring all of the 24 agencies covered by the Chief Financial Officers Act designate a labor advisor by Feb. 15. They strongly encouraged other agencies to follow suit. The initiative was first recommended last year by the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment.
“Some, but not all, agencies have designated one or more persons as agency labor advisors,” the task force wrote last year. “Federal regulations describe agency labor advisors as individuals who advise contracting agency officials on federal contract labor issues. If more agencies designated labor advisors, and with greater coordination and training, the labor advisors could be a valuable resource to...
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