Summary

The Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency that oversees illegal actions taken against federal workers, ruled that the mass firings of probationary federal workers (those in a trial period after being hired) are likely illegal.

The decision, affecting 6 cases, found that the terminations lacked individualized cause, violating federal rules.

OSC head Hampton Dellinger stated, “Firing probationary employees without individualized cause appears contrary to a reasonable reading of the law.”

This ruling could challenge the legality of nearly all such dismissals, opening the door for broader legal action.

  • Lit
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    8 hours ago

    So, arrest him?

    • @unphazed
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      188 hours ago

      Yeah, his income level puts him on the “petty fine” tier.

      • @ZoopZeZoop
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        67 hours ago

        I will accept no less than 99.99% of his net worth.

        • @PunnyName
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          12 hours ago

          How about we chop him up into 10,000 pieces, and give you all but 1?

          • @unphazed
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            45 hours ago

            Wouldn’t that be 400 million? (400bil x 99.99%) Still a lot, and I could retire happily off that much for sure.

              • @tehfishman
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                12 hours ago

                Hilariously I think you actually both did it wrong but it’s still a shitload of money that any reasonable individual could comfortably retire with. Billionaires have so much money that misplacing a few decimal places here and there hardly even matters.

                400,000,000,000 x .0001 = 40,000,000

                https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=what+is+.01%25+of+400+billion+

                If someone dropped 40 million on me tomorrow I’d be happy to fuck off back to whatever rock I crawled out from under

                • @[email protected]
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                  1 hour ago

                  i did 400,000,000,000 * 0.01 the second time i worked it out.

                  Not sure what i did to get 4.02 billion though