Nick Bednar, an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota who specializes in executive branch politics, says that what makes this moment different is how quickly and indiscriminately the layoffs are happening.
“The way we’ve traditionally reduced the size of the federal workforce is to take a scalpel and kind of target particular programs where we think there might be bloat,” he said. “This is more like taking a sledgehammer to the entire executive branch.”
A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."
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Say, if your company laid off thousands without even knowing what some of the did and then had to scramble within 72 hours to hire many of them back, (after giving them poor performance as reason for layoff), in order for your company to provide basic company performance, safeguard company assets and basically keep the doors open. Would it indicate sound management of personnel and assets, and sound management technique or lack of planning, taking the word of an outside consultant unfamiliar with what your company did for a living? As simple personnel management, if you were ordered to cut workforce by a percentage, would you use lack of available work and corporate policy on their severance letter or would you also clobber them with their first ever poor performance to be stapled to their unemployment application and following every job application they ever filed again, in order to feed their family and keep their house? Face it. Sound equitable personnel management technique, it ain't.