A group of federal worker unions filed a lawsuit late Wednesday against the Trump administration’s efforts to fire government employees who are still in a probationary period.
In their lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco federal court, the unions claim that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is violating the authority vested in Congress and lacks authority to make decisions around firing workers.
“OPM is an agency with no statutory authority to make termination decisions for federal employees (other than for OPM’s own employees). Notwithstanding this lack of legal authority, OPM ordered federal agencies throughout the nation, including in this District, to wipe out their ranks of probationary employees without any regard to applicable statutes,” the lawsuit said….