Government Employee Oversight Board Rules In Favor Of 6 Workers Fired By Elon Musk

LOADING ERROR LOADING The board overseeing federal government employment temporarily blocked the firing of six government workers on Tuesday after finding that their dismissal, part of the mass purge of probationary government employees by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, likely was illegal. I urge agency leaders to voluntarily and immediately rescind any and every unlawful termination of probationary employees.” The mass purge of probationary government employees initiated by Elon Musk's DOGE could be reversed due to decisions made by government employee oversight agencies. In his Feb. 21 ruling, Dellinger wrote that “the Agencies improperly circumvented regulations by terminating Complainants and other probationary employees en masse without regard to each employee’s individual performance for the purpose of restructuring government agencies and reducing costs.” That is likely to be true for the vast majority of probationary workers fired as part of Musk’s mass purge. “Data we have compiled from over 2,000 terminated probationary employees, including termination letters and affidavits from representative employees, reflects a clear pattern — agencies, acting at OPM’s direction, are committing widespread prohibited personnel practices,” the amended complaint to the Office of Special Counsel states.