You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet. 75,000 down, how many millions to go?
Now it looks as if the buyouts are over. Now the fun begins. How many will be fired or laid off? I’m thinking it can go into the millions.We may see whole departments combined or done away with.
Now the folks who stayed will not get the generous buyouts but at best unemployment. Worst could be denial of benefits and possible loss of pension.
Judge says cut, cut, cut. Lifts ban on buyouts.
President Trump campaigned saying he would cut the size of government and find waste and fraud. And he started offering generous employee buyouts. Folks taking them were union.
Union workers by the tens of thousands said we want out. Well the unions went to court and got a temporary stay. But that ended. We have this.
CBS News reported:
A federal judge in Massachusetts allowed the Trump administration’s bid to offer “deferred resignations” to federal workers who voluntarily leave government service to continue and lifted a previous court order pausing the program’s deadline.
Judge George O’Toole, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled Wednesday that the plaintiffs in the case — unions that represent federal employees — lacked standing to bring the case in the first place. He also ruled he did not have the jurisdiction to stop the program from proceeding.
