"If the proposal is implemented, workers would not be able to seek remedy through an independent review board. The administration of United States President Donald Trump is making it harder for fired federal employees to get their jobs back by limiting their right to appeal dismissals to an independent review board. The change was proposed as part of a government plan released on Monday by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)."
"The move comes amid a separate proposal announced last week that would reclassify high-level career civil servants as at will employees. That change would give the administration broader authority to fire career officials who do not align with the sitting president's agenda, affecting roughly 50,000 workers at the nation's largest employer. Outlined in a more than 250-page document, the directive would allow workers to be fired if they were intentionally subverting Presidential directives."
The Office of Personnel Management proposed requiring fired federal employees to appeal terminations directly to OPM rather than to the independent Merit Systems Protection Board. The MSPB has mediated disputes since 1978 and saw its caseload surge 266 percent between October 2024 and September 2025. The proposal would build on efforts to shrink the federal workforce after roughly 317,000 employees were forced out last year and would limit workers' ability to challenge firings. A related proposal would reclassify roughly 50,000 high-level career civil servants as at-will employees, expanding authority to remove officials who oppose presidential directives. OPM cites congressional authority to set reduction-in-force appeals and frames the change as streamlining a slow, costly process.
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