Short answer: yes. Longer answer: It is within the federal govt's authority to write the labor agreement from scratch. They could have used the workers' prefer

Short answer: yes. Longer answer: It is within the federal govt's authority to write the labor agreement from scratch. They could have used the workers' preferred agreement. In fact, the bill the House of Reps passed did include the seven sick days. The Senate held a vote on whether to include the sick days in the deal; it received a majority of the votes but due to Senate rules (filibuster) that was not enough, and thus the provision failed.