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WASHINGTON -- The government's chief human resources agency issued a new rule Thursday making it harder to fire thousands of federal employees, in response to an executive order former President Donald Trump issued in 2020 that sought to allow for reclassifying tens of thousands of the 2.2 million federal employees as political appointees or as other at-will workers.
Reed Smith has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of two nationwide business organizations and several high-profile companies, which argue that state restrictions on reproductive rights are having a negative impact on businesses and the economy.
The Office of Personnel Management regulations will bar career civil servants from being reclassified as political appointees, or as other at-will workers, who are more easily dismissed from their jobs.
A new federal rule could make it much harder for former President Trump to overhaul the federal workforce in his political image if he wins back the presidency in November.
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