President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign his first immigration bill Wednesday. He had campaigned on the issue of better securing the southern border. Meanwhile, his Health and Services secretary nominee,
Both commissioners, who worked for the EEOC, said they are exploring options to challenge their dismissals, calling their removal before the end of their current terms unprecedented.
President Trump fired two Democratic EEOC commissioners and an NLRB board member, hobbling two independent agencies that are tasked with enforcing worker protections.
President Trump continued to make waves just over a week into his presidency with his decision earlier this week to fire the chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Gwynne Wilcox. This unprecedented decision came alongside Trump’s firing of NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo.
The Democratic commissioners hadn't completed their terms before the White House notified them that they were being removed.
Some agency employees who President Donald Trump terminated from their leadership roles Monday night are now “considering legal options.”
A White House official defended the purge, calling the three women who lost their jobs "far-left appointees with radical records of upending longstanding labor law."
President Donald Trump removed Democratic U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) commissioners Charlotte A. Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels,
NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo issued Memorandum GC 25-04, Harmonization of the NLRA and EEO Laws. The memo responds
The White House fired Democrats Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), they each said.