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• Thousands join class actions as fired feds weigh options to challenge Trump's moves - February 18, 2025

• By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Multiple law firms are moving forward with class action complaints to challenge the Trump administration’s mass firings of recent hires and other employees on their probationary periods, claiming the terminations were illegal and the workers should be reinstated.
  
  Already thousands of employees have signed up to participate in the challenges, with impacted staff across government saying the stated reason for their firings—poor performance—is at odds with the administration’s rhetoric and the sweeping nature of the dismissals. The terminations are ongoing and not expected to wrap up until Wednesday evening, according to the Office of Personnel Management, which is helping to orchestrate the personnel moves, but is likely to sweep up tens of thousands of employees.

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