New Trump Rule Would Make It Easier To Fire Federal Workers
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Unions say that by weakening seniority protections, the proposal would pave the way for politically motivated firings.
President Donald Trump plans to strip away layoff protections for longtime federal workers, a move unions warn could enable the administration to reward political loyalists during mass firings.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is scheduled to introduce the new rule on Thursday. The proposal would allow agencies to prioritize “performance over tenure and length of service” when conducting layoffs known as reductions-in-force, or RIF’s.
“The proposed rule would make the RIF regulations more streamlined, efficient and merit-based,” the administration claims.
But the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000 government workers, says the rule would “gut” seniority protections and give agency leaders “sweeping new discretion over who stays and who goes.”
“OPM is making it easier to conduct politically motivated layoffs dressed up as ‘performance-based’ decisions,” the union’s president, Everett Kelley, said in a statement.
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