A Judge of California has blocked the order from the Donald Trump cabinet to dismiss employees in the test period belonging to the public administration.
The magistrate has issued that these layoffs could be illegalby not counting the person administration office with the competences to exercise these cessations. “There is no authority to hire and say goodbye In other agencies, he has the authority to hire and fire his employees, “says the judge.
With this court order, Judge William Alsup sets that the OPM (Acronym in English of the Personnel Administration Office) It has no power to fire the thousands of temporary employees that the White House administration wanted to use as a cost reduction method.
OPM justifies its position
Before this judicial setback that has meant the blockade of the thousands of layoffs, The OPM has assured that the Trump administration did not order the dismissals, but recommended its execution.
In addition, they ensure that temporary employees does not have your insured jobso they could be susceptible to them to dispense with them, instead of other professionals with greater performance.
A personal commission from the president to Musk
The announcement of the layoffs of federal employees by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, He was personally commissioned To one of the new strong men of his cabinet, the technological tycoon Elon Musk.
One of the measures that the owner of X, Space X and Tesla raised to expedite the cessations was to send a questionnaire to US public workers in which information was requested on their work functions. Responding erroneously or not could be a reason for dismissal for thousands of people.
Thousands of pending affected
The layoffs ordered by the new US administration They have been one of the priorities promoted by President Trump.
Although its wave of cessations is aimed at federal employees with little time working, usually in periods of one or two years, it has also reached workers with more experience or who have achieved rapid ascent.
It is estimated that around 200,000 public employees are in this situation of the trial period, so they could lose their position if the legal order finely does not go ahead.
