US EditionFired federal tech staffers file retaliation claim to a panel whose chairwoman Trump also fired
- Former 18F employees filed a class-action appeal Wednesday with the Merit Systems Protection Board to challenge their terminations and program elimination.
- The reduction-in-force occurred on February 28 and the appellants claim it resulted from retaliation based on perceived political beliefs, protected DEI speech, and whistleblowing.
- About 80 employees, including Lindsay Young and Miatta Myers, worked on projects like IRS Direct File and say GSA gave no valid reason for abolishing 18F.
- Elon Musk posted on social media in February, saying, 'That group has been deleted,' while the MSPB board recently lost quorum after Trump fired its chairwoman, Cathy Harris.
- The appeal seeks reversal of the terminations and aims to uphold federal protections against partisan actions, though the board currently cannot vote on petitions without quorum.
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What MSPB can and can’t do without a quorum
The Merit Systems Protection Board is once again in familiar territory as it deals with a loss of quorum on its three-member board, which has created some limitations in the work the agency is currently able to process. MSPB is generally responsible for adjudicating appeals on federal personnel cases, aiming to protect federal employees against prohibited personnel practices such as whistleblower retaliation. But without a board quorum, some spe…
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Fired federal tech staffers file retaliation claim to a panel whose chairwoman Trump also fired
A group of roughly 80 fired federal employees are appealing their terminations to an administrative body in charge of protecting the rights of federal employees from partisan political practices.
Former 18F employees file appeal of DOGE firings
Former employees of the General Services Administration’s 18F digital tech consultancy team filed an appeal Wednesday challenging their alleged wrongful termination and the “targeted” shuttering of the program by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency earlier this year. The employees, represented by the law firm Mehri & Skalet, submitted a class-action appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board to request a heari…
How Civil Servants Can Invoke Their Due Process Rights to Reverse the Trump Administration’s Mass Firings ✦ OnLabor
The Trump Administration is unleashing an unprecedented assault on the federal civil service. Even though civil servants enjoy removal protections under federal law, the Administration is mass-firing tens of thousands of civil servants nevertheless. The Administration’s decision to ignore these statutory protections is not surprising, given that the Supreme Court has constructed an increasingly muscular conception of the president’s […]
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