Two more unions have sued President Donald Trump over his executive order aimed at making it easier to fire federal employees.
His order, which builds on one from his first term, creates a schedule of federal workers who don’t receive the same civil service protections as other career positions in the federal service. Previously described as “Schedule F,” the classification applies to positions of “a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character.”
The order redesignates “Schedule F” as “Schedule Policy/Career” and declares that certain federal regulations surrounding employees “shall be held inoperative and without effect.”
The unions’ Jan. 29 lawsuit alleges that doing so without undergoing a formal rule-making process violates the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). They’re asking a federal court in Washington to declare that the order violates the APA and to prevent its enforcement....
