Meaning of Terms as Used in This Subchapter; Representation Proceedings; National Consultation Rights and Consultation Rights on Government-Wide Rules or Regulations; Miscellaneous and General Requirements
Key claim: The Federal Labor Relations Authority is putting its old union-representation and consultation-rights rules back in place after a court threw out most of a March 2026 interim rule, keeping only a few minor technical edits that were not vacated.
Abstract
(Rule · Federal Labor Relations Authority) The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) publishes this document to implement the vacatur of the interim final rule published March 24, 2026 (Interim Final Rule). Except for certain minor or technical changes that were part of the Interim Final Rule but were not vacated, this document reinstates the wording of the affected regulations as they appeared before the Interim Final Rule took effect.
Why this matters
The FLRA governs how federal-sector unions are recognized, which organizations get consulted on government-wide rules, and the general procedural scaffolding for federal labor-management relations. A court vacating most of a March 2026 interim rule and the agency formally reinstating the prior text means federal unions and agency labor-relations officials revert to the long-standing procedures they were using before 2026, with only narrow technical edits carrying forward. The move is primarily a procedural reset rather than a substantive policy shift.