Question

Explain how two (Executive Order 10988 and Executive Order 11491) key executive orders using personal experiences to answer the following question.

• How would these executive orders affect the workplace and explain how they impact federal, state, and local employment labor laws?

Answer 1

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10988

The Executive order 10988 is a presidential order enacted by the President of United States of America, John.F.Kennedy. The prime important feature of this order is none other than that the order gives the right for the public sector workers for the collective bargaining. The order was executed in the year 1962. This was considered one of the important Executive order in the history of the laws of workers. The right for the workers as seen in today not emerged in a single order but the rights has evolved through a series of orders. One of the notable point is that before this order the private sector employees was protected under the Wegner's act of 1935.

The impact was interesting that the number of union membership in the coming years was increasing and it is due to this order. And the people who was a part of other unions came out from that they formed a union among themselves and they became united. But they act is not in too favor because the act does not gives the right for employees to took action against the government, for example to conduct a strike.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11491

The Executive Order 11491 was executed by Nixon, the honorable President of USA. The order was enacted in the year 1969. The foundation of the labor rights for public sector employees was initiated in the executive order 10988 and the Executive order 11491 gives an institutional frame work or structure for the smooth running of these labor relationship and labor management. Under this executive order there formed an institution namely Federal Labor Relations Council. These institutional setup was to ensure the labor relations and the labor management has to be handled in a proper way and to ensure the rights of employees who were protected under the law.

The Assistant Secretary for the labor was one position who will hear the complaints and to make decisions of that particular argument. These all provide the local employees and the unions to make voice against the unfair work practices and the law gives them a legal protection to question them. The Federal Service Impasses Panel has the right to participate in the bargaining practice when they are not ready to resolve in a fair manner. These all are the important provisions based on this act.