#OPM's new rule—dubbed "Schedule Policy/Career"—will allow many career #CivilServants to be classified as "#AtWill" employees, making them easier to remove.
#Trump aides argue they need greater flexibility to fire civil servants who are *underperforming*, engaging in *misconduct* or *undermining* Trump's policy plans.
#law #labor #ScheduleF #CivilService #Project2025 #autocracy #ExecutivePower #AbuseOfPower
End #California’s #AtWill employment status. https://journa.host/@sludge/113977133193585035
#AtWill #Employment Must #End. Our #CivilRights Depend on It. At-will employment allows #discrimination to run rampant in the #workplace.
#NewYorkCity can become the first major #US #city to #require #employers to give #workers #advancenotice of #termination and a #written #justification for why they are being #fired.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #NewYorkCity #Business #Workplace #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/at-will-employment-new-york-city/
“That incident was a case study in them going after the people who do the #science,”…Clement said.
In April, OPM finalized a rule that will allow federal employees to keep their existing #JobProtections & right to #DueProcess, including the right to appeal a reassignment or firing. The rule overturns a #Trump directive, known as #ScheduleF, that allowed his admin to force out thousands of career employees by changing their status to #AtWill workers who could be fired w/o due process.
The rule addresses a move #Trump tried to make late in his presidency by issuing an EO known in shorthand as #ScheduleF. It would have empowered his admin to strip #JobProtections from #career #federal #employees — who are supposed to be hired based on #merit & cannot be arbitrarily fired. While the EO said agencies should not hire or fire Schedule F employees based on #political affiliation, it effectively would have made these employees more like political appointees who can be #fired #AtWill.
There's a lot of talk at different times about #RightToWork and #AtWill #employment, and when politicians and lobbyists talk about it, it's often really difficult to understand what they're actually saying.
This is probably deliberate.
The short version is this:
— Under at-will employment conditions, an employer can run a closed union shop and require that you join the union and pay union dues to work there. Refusal to join a union can be a legal reason for termination.
— Under right-to-work conditions, you cannot be forced to join a union or pay dues and refusal cannot legally be used as a reason for termination. However, the union may still represent you even if you do not join.
Indeed has a good explanation of the details.
Gahhhhhh, once again, for those in the back:
#AtWill does not mean "they can fire you for any or no reason." It means that they can fire you for a lot of things, but firing you for engaging in a protected activity, being in a protected class, etc is still illegal.
#RightToWork has to do with #union security clauses. Nothing else. It doesn't affect your rights beyond that item. At all.
Please stop conceding defeat and encouraging others to concede before even starting.
Seven out of 10 American workers fired in a recent survey were given no reason or bad reasons for being let go and most did not receive severance: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/workers-fired-2022-just-cause-nelp-report/
#maggieduffy #motherjones #labor #laborrights #atwill #justcause #unionization #unions #organizing #organising #organization #organisation #organizedlabor #organisedlabour #nelp #nationalemploymentlawproject
