A federal judge in Boston is reviewing a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's administration's plan to offer financial incentives for federal employees to resign. The program, dubbed a buyout, has been criticized by labor unions as an unprecedented attempt to shrink the federal workforce and replace employees with those more aligned with the administration's agenda.
Lawyers for labor unions and President Donald Trump’s administration faced off in a courtroom Monday with the fate of the federal workforce hanging in the balance. Trump wants to use financial incentives to encourage government employees to quit. According to the White House, 65,000 workers had taken the government up on its offer as of Friday.
The program, commonly described as a buyout, has been spearheaded by Elon Musk, who is serving as Trump’s top adviser for downsizing the federal government. If employees take the offer, they can stop working and get paid until September 30th. Labor unions who sued over the program asked for U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. in Boston to keep it on hold and prevent the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, from soliciting more workers to sign up. They argued the program was an “unprecedented action” on an “unprecedented timeline,” and they described it as a pretext to remove workers and replace them with people aligned with the administration. Eric Hamilton, a Justice Department lawyer, called the plan a “humane off ramp” for federal employees who may have structured their lives around working remotely and have been ordered to return to government buildings. The judge adjourned a hearing on Monday afternoon without announcing a ruling, and a written decision was expected.
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