Last week the Trump administration made a buyout offer to millions of federal workers. The offer said employees who wanted to leave could reply “resign” to an OPM email address and that would start their paperwork and give them 8 months of severance. The deadline for making a decision was midnight tonight.
But immediately there was panic and pushback from employees and government unions. The administration was hoping around 200,000 workers would accept the offer but the unions were telling everyone not to accept. They sued the administration on Tuesday of this week.
…the deferred resignation allegedly breaks numerous laws, a Feb. 4 lawsuit filed by several federal employee unions alleges. The plaintiffs in that suit are asking a court to block the government’s offer, which they describe as “arbitrary, capricious” and in violation of the Administrative…
