The Department of Labor has canceled plans to outsource over 300 administrative support jobs to a contractor following the passage of legislation prohibiting the department from competing jobs in the Mine Safety and Health Administration were many of the jobs were.
A recently passed emergency supplemental spending bill required the classification of MSHA employees as inherently governmental – in addition to federal employees at the National Energy Technology Laboratory.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which held a rally in front of the Capitol in June to protest Labor’s plans to outsource the positions to GAP Solutions, had filed a grievance based on the demographic composition of the affected workers, most of whom are African American women over 40.
