Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield has joined a coalition of 20 states in a lawsuit asking the court to rule the mass firing of probationary federal employees as illegal.
Lawsuit Calls for their Reinstatement
The lawsuit also calls for fired employees to be reinstated and for the court to stop similar job terminations in the future.
The AGs have brought the lawsuit following the Trump administration’s move to reduce the number of federal government employees by ordering federal agencies to terminate the services of thousands of probationary workers.
Probationary employees are those who were recently promoted, changed office, or newly hired, and are generally subject to a one to two-year period of probation…