DIRNSA Fired In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote: It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. It’s something a bunch of us were saying at the time, in reference to the vast NSA’s surveillance capabilities. I have been thinking of that quote a lot as I read … Read more
Class actions allege that the mass terminations of probationary employees violated workers’ rights under federal law. The class action filings are believed to be the first on behalf of thousands of probationary employees fired in February. On March 7, federal employees announced the filing of class action appeals against multiple federal agencies, alleging that the … Read more
The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate workers it “unlawfully” fired. U.S. District Judge James Bredar last week ordered the Trump administration to reinstate employees laid off across a number of U.S. government agencies, including the Department … Read more
Last Friday, Brown Goldstein & Levy—representing probationary and trial period employees formerly employed by the Small Business Administration (SBA)—filed a class appeal before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) challenging the Trump Administration’s illegal termination of a large swath of the agency’s workforce. Terminated employees performed functions that are critical to fulfilling the agency’s core … Read more