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JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered a block on the Fork "deferred resignation" program until additional litigation can take place.
February 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Over at @lawfare.bsky.social, I have a new post examining the legal foundations (or lack thereof) of the deferred resignation program (i.e., the buyout). I conclude with some thoughts about who may or may not take the offer.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/brea...
Breaking Down OPM’s ‘Fork in the Road’ Email to Federal Workers
Though the subject line borrows a phrase from Musk’s Twitter email, the federal government is not a private company, and its HR policies are arcane and legally binding.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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New, from me: Looking closer at the effort to induce mass civil servant resignations.
*The offers are not real buyouts
*Feds should read the fine print
*If mass resignations occur, it is really bad for the rest of us
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/compelling...
Compelling Mass Civil Servant Resignations Will Create Chaos
Twitter is not a model for government reform
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people.

It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/1886...
A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:19 PM