US Federal Judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the controversial plan of President Donald Trumpwho offered to all civil servants willing to leave until 6 February several months of severance pay. TASR reports this according to the NBC News.
Federal government employees with more than two million, They could receive an offer to pay by 30 September in exchange for leaving by Thursday 23.59 local time. Boston District Judge George O’Toole Jr. However, he ordered Trump’s administration to extend this period until the trial, which he planned on Monday afternoon.
The program of the so -called postponed testimony was made by Elon Musk, a billionaire and entrepreneur who operates the Commission for the Effectiveness of the Government (Doga). Representatives of Trump’s administration claim that Thanks to the program, they can save taxpayers’ money.
Thursday’s hearing a judge summoned that assessed the application of three federal trade unions to issue a temporary court orderwhich would suspend the validity of the deadline and request from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to provide the legal basis for the proposal.
The three trade unions representing 800,000 federal civil servants have argued that The offer is illegal and arbitrary. They argued, among other things, by the fact that the government will lose people with expertise and free positions will be politicized.
They also claimed that the OPM by offer to a large extent imitated the access of Musk’s lead after its receipt of Twitter (today X) when It was released by approximately 80 percent of the company’s employees.
“We are grateful to the judge for extending the deadline so that more federal employees who refuse to come to the office could take advantage of this very generous offer, which will only come once in a lifetime,” In response to the decision of the Judge, the White House spokeswoman Karoline Levitt. So far, more than 40,000 government employees have applied for departure for severance pay.
