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- Approximately 1,100 EPA employees received emails that they could lose their job immediately.
- E-mail is identified as the most likely “care observation” for the recipient. In other words, it means that you work for less than a year at the EPA and have less employment protection.
- The union representative said that the message was scary for many recipients.
The Trump administration has notified more than 1,000 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency that they could be fired immediately.
According to an e-mail reviewed by NBC NEWS, an agency notified that in less than a year, it has been identified as an employee who is likely to be in the “trial period” in less than a year. I received it.
“As an employee during the probation/trial period, the agency has the right to end you,” says the email. “The probation process is to receive the end notification and the employment ends immediately.”
According to Marie Owens Powell, chairman of the US government employee council 238, a leading union of about 8,500 EPA staff, about 1,100 employees received emails. Powell said she had received an employee list from an agency.
“The probation employees have not been released yet,” Powell said. “As you can imagine, I was afraid that people would receive a message, and we accept questions from those people. Agency can clearly reject the insurance observation employees. But it must be for the cause. ”
Powell added that if an employee was fired, the union added, “Make sure the process has been protected.”
It is not clear how many EPA employees are targeted for reduction. This email comes when the Trump administration promotes strongly to reduce the government. They provided the acquisition of federal employees, trying to temporarily freeze the federal aid, and tried to close US international development agencies. The EPA employees were one of the federal workers who received the acquisition offer entitled “Folk in the Road”.
“This email is one of the series of e -mails received from January 20, most of the EPA, and is certainly a shocking type attack.” Powell said.
Already, she added that union members who worked on diversity, fairness, and inclusive issues are on management leave.
“I am directly engaged with the EPA headquarters career staff,” said Lee Zeldin administrator, a former U.S. national representative in New York, which was confirmed on Wednesday, Molly VaselioU, EPA spokesman.
“EPA is eager to guidance related to President Trump's presidential order,” said Vaseliou. “Our goals are open and transparent. Since we are working to improve the efficiency of the whole government, we understand how all the staff understand the law and how policy decisions will affect. Eventually, the goal is to create a more effective and more effective federal government.
VaselioU did not respond directly to the question of whether the institution would leave the e -mail to workers.
If the worker is fired, the right of their appeal depends on whether they are qualified as employees under federal law, and are employees with employees. It depends on Completed a one -year continuous service。
However, Powell said that several employees with more than a year have received emails and contacted the union.
“The list is definitely defective. Powell said that some of the federal services for more than one year had received e -mails, and for the EPA leader,” This is a practice to correct the list. I added. “
Nicole Cantello, the president of another union, representing EPA employees, knew several employees on the list, but had more than a year. I said.
CNN first reported In emails to EPA workers, some federal employees will be a kind of whiplash, depending on which party is dominated as environmental policy ping -pongs.
“We are concerned that government agencies will carry out mass -disclosure of probation employees,” said Cantello, Cantello.
“Inspection employees are usually released because they do not work well or have discipline. I have never fired a large number of trials in 33 years when I went to the EPA. This is the precedent. There are no scope and scale, “she said,” she added that she had little protection.
“As long as they say the reason, everyone will do something,” said Cantello, mentioning the EPA leader.
Jeremy Simmons, a senior advisor to the former EPA staff, has regarded recent transition between governments as the most “mixed OTIC” in the history of institutions. Simmons worked as an EPA climate advisor from 1994 to 2001, and was in an institution when President George W. Bush was appointed President Birkrinton.
“The transition was defined by a different policy agenda, but it was not this Vindictive Purge, a civil servant who did not do anything wrong,” he said.
Source: www.nbcnews.com
