'Efforts to try to change the civil service aren't just Trump,' warns DonKettl, 'and if Republicans take control of Congress following the midterms, this may very well go from idea to specific action.'
The bill"would make all federal bureaucrats at-will employees—just like private sector workers—and claw back the inordinate protections some federal employees grossly abuse," he added. that aides to former President Donald Trump are working to revive a plan to reclassify federal civil service personnel who worked under both Democratic and Republican administrations as at-will workers subject to easier termination.
"dramatically limits the amount of whistleblowing activity that's possible," noting that"it creates a disincentive to blow the whistle because your retirement benefits could be reduced." "When you put it together," he added,"it's a very big deal" and"would dramatically change the incentives for individuals who are being dismissed because of whistleblowing."
Author and transgender activist Brynn Tannehill worries that, should at-will employment become reality,"a purge of trans people from federal service" would follow a return of Trump or another Republican president to the White House.
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