Trump Strips Job Protections for 50,000 Federal Workers

1. Trump Strips Job Protections From Thousands of Federal Workers
The policy change makes it easier for the president to discipline or remove up to 50,000 employees, another push in the administration’s campaign to reshape the federal work force.

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2. Federal workers will be easier to fire in new Trump administration move
Critics argue the change brushes aside a law that provided job protections for career employees while limiting at-will employment to political appointees

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3. New Trump administration rule makes it easier to fire career civil servants
The OPM rule says that high ranking officials could be fired for 'intentionally subverting Presidential directives'.

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4. Trump admin issues new rule, making it easier to fire 50,000 federal workers
<p>Union representing federal workers warned the new policy will chill speech </p>

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5. Trump administration issues rule that makes it easier to fire federal workers
<p>New rule to be published in the Federal Register on Friday would strip job protections for 50,000 federal employees</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> is seeking to finalize its overhaul of the federal government’s civil service system through a<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-02375/improving-performance-accountability-and-responsiveness-in-the-civil-service"> rule issued </a>this week by the office of personnel management (OPM) to strip job protections from 50,000 civil service employees.</p><p>Under the rule, the president would have the authority to fire and hire an estimated 50,000 career federal employees.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/05/trump-administration-federal-workers">Continue reading...</a>

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6. Trump administration to end job protections for up to 50,000 federal workers
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 – U.S. President Donald Trump will have more power to hire and fire up to 50,000 career federal employees in an overhaul of the government’s civil service system announced by his administration on Thursday. The overhaul, released by the Office of Personnel Management, fulfills Trump’s campaign pledge to strip job protections from […]

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7. Trump admin makes it easier to sack govt employees
The US government announced on Thursday it is relaxing labour laws governing some 50,000 federal employees, making it easier to dismiss them, after a year of US President Donald Trump dismantling substantial parts of the federal apparatus.

The Office of Personnel Management (OMP) said it was set to publish the new regulations on Friday in an official gazette, a move that will transform the status of nearly two percent of all federal employees and bring it closer to that of civil servants appointed by the president.

Until now, only presidentially-appointed civil servants could be dismissed, with no recourse, at the discretion of the White House occupant.

In its 255-page document, the OPM states the new rules are intended to "strengthen employee accountability and the democratic responsiveness of American Government, while addressing long-standing performance management challenges in the Federal workforce."

The office assures that these positions will "remain career jobs filled on a non-partisan basis."

The regulations also stipulate that the whistleblower process will now be managed within agencies, rather than by an independent body.

The main federal employees union, AFGE, slammed the announcement as a "direct assault" on the merit-based civil service system.

"When people see turmoil and controversy in Washington, they don't ask for more politics in government, they ask for competence and professionalism. OPM is doing the opposite," said AFGE president Everett Kelley.

Career public servants, he warned, are being replaced with "political flunkies."

The White House, however, applauded the OPM for updating its workforce rules.

"I think if people aren't doing their jobs, if they aren't showing up for work, if they're not working hard on behalf of this president, they're not welcome to work for him at all," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump promised to reduce public spending and slash bureaucracy.

After his inauguration, he entrusted his mega-wealthy ally Elon Musk with the task, appointing him to head a new commission on government efficiency called Doge.

The White House and Doge stepped up layoffs and incentives for civil servants to leave, gutted public agencies, and drastically cut international aid.

According to OPM, some 317,000 civil servants left the federal government in 2025. Of these, more than 150,000 did so through the incentive programme. (AFP)

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8. Trump administration to end job protections for up to 50,000 federal workers
President Donald Trump will have more power to hire and fire up to ​50,000 career federal employees in an overhaul of the government's civil service system, as a

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