Sasha Rogelberg at Fortune Magazine reports a major Government Employment Watchdog overseeing the fairness of agency firings has been flooded with claims following President Donald Trump’s purge of Federal Workers. The Merit System Protections Board (MSPB), an independent agency working to ensure government jobs are awarded on merit, has received as much as a 2,100% increase in cases from Federal Employees appealing their dismissals, including those alleging they were subject to illegal discrimination or disputing charges of poor performance. Five months ago, the Board had typically received about 100 petitions every week. From February 16th to the 22nd - the week following many terminations - 1,805 petitions came in. The week after, it got 2,171 more, a 20-fold increase of its typical quota. Most recently, from March 2nd to the 8th, MSPB received 1,503 petitions. Culling the Federal Workforce, which Trump says is about cutting costs, has been a key effort in his second administration despite Government Employees sounding the alarm on the firings, throwing their agencies into chaos and jeopardizing their future job prospects.

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