The Trump government can continue with layoffs in functionalism, decides the judge

The government of the President of the United States Donald Trump could for the moment keep the mass layoffs of public employees, a federal judge decided on Thursday, rejecting the attempt of a group of unions to prevent the dramatic reduction of the federal workforce of 2.3 millions of people.

The decision of judge Christopher Cooper of Washington is temporary, but it is also a victory of the government that tries to reduce what considers fraudulent and useless public expenses.

The union of employees of the national treasure and four other similar groups tried to prevent, last week, that the government fired hundreds of thousands of employees with ending for those who leave their positions voluntarily.

The unions try to prevent eight agencies from making mass layoffs, including the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Financial Protection Department of the Consumer and the Department of Veterans.

Thursday, Cooper said that most likely he does not have the power to judge the case and that the unions must present their complaints in a federal Labor organ that analyzes the disputes between unions and federal agencies.

Trump has chosen Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, to guide the new department of government efficiency, or doge, who cut thousands of jobs from the federal agencies and dismantled the programs since Trump came into office last month.

The E -mails for termination of the contract were sent last week to public employees from the whole federal government, in particular those recently hired and those still in the trial phase in agencies such as the Department of Public Education, of the Small Business Administration, Dell ‘Office for financial protection and administration of general services, among others.

The entities that have entered the process argue that the efforts of the White House – including those made through doge – to reduce federal functionalism violates the principles of separation of powers, since the congress authority of the financing of Federal Agencies Mina.

The unions say that if the Court does not intervene, they will be irreparably compromised by the loss of revenue by paying members who have been fired or withdrawn in advance.

Most public employees can only be fired by scarce performance or misconduct. They also have a series of processes and resources if they are dismissed. Employees during the trial phase, the main objectives of last week, have fewer legal protections.

A judge who presides over a case similar to Boston has allowed voluntary layoffs to continue, in a decision of February 12, stating that the unions do not have the legitimacy to move the action because they had not shown how they would have been damaged by the plan.

The window for voluntary layoffs ended and about 75,000 public employees entered the program, according to the United States staff management office. It is about 3% of the federal workforce.

More than 70 processes have been moved to prevent Trump from reforming functionalism, repressing immigration and reverse transgender rights. The results have been mixed so far.

Source: Terra

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