It was also not immediately known how many of the fired prosecutors intended to challenge the terminations by arguing that the department had cast aside civil service protections afforded to federal employees
That tells me federal employees have different rules and they may have a path to make things uncomfortable for a while. Whether that’s worth the effort is up to them.
I live in a at-will right to work state, so I understand that. But not every state is an at-will right to work state, and surely the way federal employees are treated is legislated differently and not on a state level. Do federal employees have zero protections?
Its US. You can be fired at any time. What do you think this is? Europe?
By private companies. Federal employees have a lot more protections.
Literally, from the article:
It was also not immediately known how many of the fired prosecutors intended to challenge the terminations by arguing that the department had cast aside civil service protections afforded to federal employees
That tells me federal employees have different rules and they may have a path to make things uncomfortable for a while. Whether that’s worth the effort is up to them.
I live in a at-will
right to workstate, so I understand that. But not every state is an at-willright to workstate, and surely the way federal employees are treated is legislated differently and not on a state level. Do federal employees have zero protections?On paper or in practice?
Because seems like whatever president says goes.
Fair question. On paper. On paper is what actually matters, long term… So long as the checks in balances in place aren’t all totally neutralized.
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