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.

    • @unphazed
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      511 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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          38 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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            7 hours 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

            • Bugari
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              21 hour ago

              You’re calculating 1%. 0.01 is 1%. 0.0001 is 0.01%