The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has proposed ending the right of fired federal employees to dispute their dismissal before the independent Merit Systems Protection Board, according to a government plan released on Monday. Instead, fired workers would need to appeal to OPM, an office whose director reports to U.S. President Donald Trump. The proposal would “give the administration free rein to terminate huge swaths of the federal workforce without meaningful independent oversight,” said Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union for U.S. federal workers.
