A federal judge will consider the Trump administration’s offer of mass buyouts for government workers on Monday, after extending a deadline last week for more than two million federal employees to decide whether to accept the offer.
Judge to rule on Trump’s offer of mass buyouts for US government workers Federal employees claim in lawsuit ‘deferred resignation’ program is illegal because Congress has not approved it.
The Trump administration said it has offered to nearly all of the roughly 2 million civilian federal workers the opportunity to leave their jobs and receive eight months’ severance pay and benefits, or to stay in their positions and agree to new reforms, including a requirement to work in the office five days a week.
US district judge George O’Toole will hear arguments in Boston in a lawsuit brought by federal workers’ unions which claim the administration’s “deferred resignation” program is illegal because it has not been authorized by Congress.
A coalition of Democratic attorneys general, led by New York attorney general Letitia James, warned federal employees that the buyout offer was “misleading”.
