Multiple federal government employee unions filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s plan to offer buyouts to federal workers.
The American Federation of Government Employees and two other unions claim the buyout offer is “arbitrary and capricious in numerous respects” and violates federal law, according to a complaint filed on Tuesday.
The White House last week offered 2 million civilian full-time federal workers an opportunity to stop working this week and receive pay and benefits through Sept. 30 as President Donald Trump seeks to slash the size of the government. The deadline to take the offer is Thursday.
But the unions argued that the buyout program “fails to consider possible adverse consequences of the directive provided to millions of federal employees to the continuing functioning of government” and allegedly “offers conflicting information about employees’ rights and obligations if they accept the government’s offer.”…