Trade unions are opposed to the plan and have questioned the legality of threats of official dismissal.
6.2. 21: 56 • Updated 6.2. 22:48
In the United States, the federal judge has, by its decision, temporarily frozen the president Donald Trump administration’s efforts to reduce federal labor.
Most federal employees have been offered the opportunity to leave their job and receive several months’ salary as a separate money. Originally, employees had time to accept the offer today until midnight. The judge’s decision to postpone the deadline to Monday, when the subject is to be consulted.
Trade unions oppose the Trump administration’s plan and have questioned the legality of threats to officials. The deferral gives the parties time to submit further clarification for consultation.
Tens of thousands of seized the offer
White house press secretary Karoline Leavitt says For the NBC News, Trump’s administration is grateful for extending the deadline, as now more federal workers can seize the “very generous” offer of the administration.
According to the press secretary, more than 40,000 employees have so far approved the offer. The number is relatively small as the offer concerned more than two million federal workers. According to Politico, the Trump Administration hopes that about 5-10 % of the workforce will be voluntarily eliminated from the government.
The offer has been part of Trump’s fierce reforms on the federal official machinery. Federal workers to resign behind the impressive plan is the richest man in the world Elon Muskwhich leads the “agency of administration effect” (doge).