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 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
If Harris won I would’ve joined the FTC. They were actually starting to do their jobs for once.
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.
That’s if said administration does. Don’t put it past them.
No, it’s not, it’s if said administration is allowed to. They’re not nearly as powerful as they want us to believe, they have been told no by court decisions and public outrage and been forced to back down on a variety of things already, and that’s probably going to happen more often as their stupidity causes more things to break down in highly public ways that are impossible to spin and they have to find more scapegoat enemies and distracting spectacles, which will cause more things to break down and etc.