Donald Trump’s administration is able to win a “monologic” bill, breaking the law by firing government workers on false grounds, according to the top Labour lawyer.
Authorities cite “deteriorating performance” when firing thousands of federal workers. Often, that’s not true, employees are caught up in a blitz, many of whom are currently seeking legal advice.
Jacob Malcolm was Deputy Director of Policy and Environmental Management and was director of the U.S. Department of the Interior Office’s Office of Policy Analysis.
“This is done under the guise of ‘bad performance’ or ‘skills that aren’t suited to needs,’ but neither is true,” he told the Guardian. “First, no evidence has been provided to suggest a decline in performance. In fact, I’m down my chain of supervision and some of the individuals who know that they are one of the best performances. I know.
“Secondly, there is no evidence or analysis of lack of consistency with needs. Some people who have ended in my chain are actually working on performance and efficiency, so they are literally working on Doge’s public opinion. Masu.”
The so-called “Government Efficiency Bureau,” a unit led by billionaire tycoon Elon Musk, is permitted by Trump to improve efficiency and carry out a wide range of electric shocks across the federal government.
However, labor lawyer Suzanne Summerlin has seen a “surprising” level of “surprising” and “fraudulent” levels of “fraudulent”, “fraudulent”, “dangerous” and “abuse” as the Trump administration attempted to review a series of departments and agencies. He said that.
“These terminations they carry out incomprehensible under the law mean that hundreds of thousands of former federal employees are owing to pay and interest plus attorney fees plus benefits “Summerlin said. “When the bill comes, it will be monumental.”
White House spokesman Anna Kelly said: “President Trump and his administration are putting forward the duties of the American people to eliminate wasted spending and make federal agencies more efficient.
The Human Resources Administration and the Department of Justice did not respond to requests for comment.
On Thursday, a federal judge opposed a lawsuit filed by a series of unions calling for a restraining order and a provisional injunction to stop the Trump administration’s mass shootings. The judge argued that the court has no jurisdiction and that the union must submit it to the Federal Labor Commission.
Thousands of more than 220,000 probation workers working for the federal government around the US have received cancellation notices as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to dramatically reduce the federal workforce.
One of the veteran federal workers who spoke with the Guardian was only a few weeks away from passing a year’s probation period to be hired permanently by the U.S. Forest Service. Instead, they received a layoff notice citing poor performance. In fact, they had received positive performance reviews, but they shared a copy of it with the Guardian.
“I would have been a full-time employee on March 10th,” they said. “I lost my health insurance. I have an incurable illness that requires a doctor. I can’t pay those bills. I’m now waiting for my eviction notice.”
They also refused to sign the non-disclosure agreement seen by the Guardian. They demanded that they remain anonymous in fear of further retaliation for future work.
“Elon Musk has destroyed 19 years of my career, it’s gone. He labeled us. We’ve been labelled as fraud, waste, government bloating. “We do,” the workers said. “They effectively destroyed our careers. They won’t recover from this. There’s no way. Financial fallout is devastating and he’s dismantling everything. So how does this work? I don’t know if I’ll help a working man.
“We are all taxpayers. I pay taxes and I will make my ass work for my work, despite the other public thinking about federal workers. ”
The massive end has caused confusion for the federal government. The Trump administration struggled to withdraw employee firing at the U.S. Nuclear Security Agency and layoffs from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s avian flu outbreak.
Dismissed probation employees who worked for the Department of Health and Human Services were among those notified of their dismissal.
“It’s not just new employees who have been affected. Many are long-time federal employees who have recently been promoted to supervisors, and are usually on probation when they are promoted,” they say. I did. “They claim that this is due to a “degraded performance” in the ending character. Many federal employees earn “excellent” or “achieved better than expected” in their performance reviews, allowing team members to prove their excellent work and work ethic. ”
Congress is facing calls to intervene. “We are concerned that the fires have occurred for partisan political reasons and that they will not follow legal cuts in enforcement procedures,” says Kia, senior policy advisor to the American Civil Liberties Union. Hamadanchy said. “These massive layoffs undermine the key functions of government and threaten important checks on enforcement.”
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