A U.S. District Judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's 'Fork in the Road' buyout program for federal employees. The program, which offered workers a choice to resign with continued pay until September 30th or potentially face job loss without compensation, has been criticized by unions and legal experts for lacking a legal basis and for being coercive. Judge George O’Toole Jr. set a hearing for Monday to further consider blocking the buyout and ordered the administration to notify workers of the delay.
A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's controversial buyout program for federal employees , delaying its implementation pending further legal arguments. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. set a hearing for Monday at 2 p.m. to consider blocking the buyout further and ordered the Trump administration to notify workers of the delayed deadline.
Judge O’Toole stated, 'I enjoined the defendants from taking any action to implement the so-called directive pending the completion of briefing and oral argument on the issues,' adding, 'I believe that's as far as I want to go today.'The buyout program, dubbed the 'Fork Directive' by critics, was initially offered to at least 2 million federal employees via email. The email, with the subject line 'Fork in the Road,' instructed employees to respond from their work computer with the word 'Resign' in the body of the reply to accept the offer. Accepting employees were also exempted from in-person work requirements through September. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that more than 40,000 federal workers had already accepted the buyout offer, which guarantees pay until September 30th. Leavitt encouraged federal workers to accept the 'very generous offer,' stating, 'If they don't want to show up to the office if they want to rip the American people off, then they're welcome to take this buyout and we'll find highly competent individuals who want to fill these roles.'This controversial program has faced strong opposition from unions and legal experts who argue that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is violating the Administrative Procedures Act by failing to provide a legal basis for the buyout offer. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) issued a statement condemning the 'Fork Directive,' calling it 'the latest attempt by the Trump-Vance administration to implement Project 2025’s dangerous plans to remove career public service workers and replace them with partisan loyalists.' The AFGE statement further asserts, 'The “Fork Directive” amounts to a clear ultimatum to a sweeping number of federal employees: resign now or face the possibility of job loss without compensation in the near future. Even so, as employees face threats from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that failure to resign may result in being fired without compensation, workers are being offered a package that violates the law.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES BUYOUT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION JUDGE LAWSUIT UNION 'FORK DIRECTIVE'
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