Trump administration begins laying off more than 4,000 federal workers amid government shutdown, court filing shows
Trump administration begins laying off more than 4,000 federal workers amid government shutdown, court filing shows
Trump administration begins laying off more than 4,000 federal workers amid government shutdown, court filing shows
Affected agencies include the departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy and Health and Human Services, among others, according to a Justice Department filing.
The Trump administration on Friday began laying off more than 4,000 federal workers, according to a court filing, as the government remains shut down due to the inability of Congress to reach a funding deal.
Reduction-in-force notices are being sent to federal workers across seven departments, with the Treasury Department and Department of Health and Human Services being the hardest hit and accounting for more than half of the total layoffs, according to a new Justice Department filing.
The court filing is in response to a lawsuit over the shutdown layoffs from the American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO.
I'd hate to be a government worker under...this.
Glad you got your job back? Well, it's gone again.
The deal used to be that you took a pay cut relative to the private sector for better job security and sometimes benefits. I don’t see why anyone would accept lower pay to work for the government now unless they were truly desperate.
Coincidentally this is an effective way for the party of "government doesn't work" to sabotage government for the long term.
Well, and some people legitimately love the work and/or their country and serving it. If they are going to get a slap in the face from assholes like Taco who think they are a king, I don't see why anyone would bother, though. Taco and the Confederates do so very much to destroy civic pride and civic engagement.
The Karens that wave the flag while clutching "the" bible don't love this country. Not really.
I mean, not being forced to work while not being paid sounds like an ok deal, especially when the odds are pretty good the courts are going to force the administration to give you backpay for all the time you weren't working and hire you back anyway
It sounds like a "pretty good deal"...?
Not a great deal though. It's also a lot of stress and hardship and uncertainty in the meantime.
It's not like time off where you can just take a vacation. It's a lot harder to spend money on something like that when you don't have stable income.
The shutdown is bad for literally everyone, including the billionaires who think they're benefiting.
If Harris won I would've joined the FTC. They were actually starting to do their jobs for once.
That's if said administration does. Don't put it past them.