The cuts are part of President Donald Trump’s wide scale effort to downsize the federal workforce, specifically an edict from the self-styled Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, to fire all probationary employees. THAT INCLUDES NEW EMPLOYEES AND ALSO EXPERIENCED FEDERAL WORKERS WHO TOOK NEW POSITIONS, INCLUDING PROMOTIONS, WITHIN THE PAST YEAR.
There are about 20,000 federal civilian employees in Minnesota. It’s not known how many of those are probationary, but roughly two dozen spoke to the Minnesota Star Tribune about losing their jobs and all knew of others in their departments who had been dismissed. Many did not want to be named because they hoped to be rehired, were looking for new jobs or feared they would be harassed for speaking out.
Nationwide, some departments were hit harder than others. More than 2,000 workers were fired from the Interior Department, which includes the national parks, while close to 400 were laid off from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the New York Times.
They had the option to take severance for voluntary resignation.
they could go take the state money from the Somalians too
Where I'm from you're an "at will" employee with no severance.
Those rules are for us tax paying plebs, not the tax spending parasites.
How many of them used pronouns?
2 dozen anonymous sources lol
good one
51 anonymous intelligence agents 🤣
No job is guaranteed for life, even federal ones.
Good start.
The cuts are part of President Donald Trump’s widescale effort to downsize the federal workforce, specifically an edict from the self-styled Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, to fire all probationary employees. That includes new employees and also experienced federal workers who took new positions, including promotions, within the past year. There are about 20,000 federal civilian employees in Minnesota. It’s not known how many of those are probationary, but roughly two dozen spoke to the Minnesota Star Tribune about losing their jobs and all knew of others in their departments who had been dismissed. Many did not want to be named because they hoped to be rehired, were looking for new jobs or feared they would be harassed for speaking out. Nationwide, some departments were hit harder than others. More than 2,000 workers were fired from the Interior Department, which includes the national parks, while close to 400 were laid off from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the New York Times.
"Dozens" out of 3 million govt employees. It's such a crisis. /sarc
If they were in a probationary period, would they have earned severance? Usually if someone is new and is on probation that is the time the company is trying to determine if they want to keep someone on permanently.
Some were in a probationary period after being promoted to a new job, obviously severence would need to be looked at for some.
In my opinion, National Parks has too many chiefs and not enough indians - it needs to be 90% in the field people maintaining the parks and serving people and 10% administration - most recreation agencies are almost the exact opposite and hire seasonal people to work peak periods - gotta have those pretty brochures and keep those unreliable automated reservation systems going.
Literally using the dead wood for cleaning up dead wood.
the people that were "promoted" or transferred to a different federal agency, and put on probation are getting a screwing. then again, when all the dust sttles and the government starts hiring again (let's face it, folks, the government needs to have people working for it) are they going to be put to the front of the list?
Their bureaucracy is something like 90% demoncrat. Let's hope NONE of them get hired back.
Get rid of EPA altogether!