FTC workers are getting terminated, including consumer protection and antitrust staff

At least ten traded employees of the Federal Trade Committee have been completed last week, freedom He learned.
The termination was made throughout the agency, according to two sources familiar with the matter, one of which said that this includes both the Consumer Protection Office and the Competition Office. The sources have not finally linked the fines held by the Government Efficiency Department in Illon Musk, but this step followed the familiar Diwayth notebook: apparently random discounts targeting test employees, who may be new to the agency or a specific role. FTC did not immediately respond to the comment.
This appears to be one of the first times during the current Trump administration that the Federal Trade Committee was affected by employment discounts in this range, so that Dog pushed mass launches across the federal government. FTC Republican team Andrew Ferguson He greatly agreed with Trump, but the discounts indicate that the agency may not be safe from wider changes on government employment – although it is still unclear to what extent it will go.
In an e -mail obtained by Immediately, The FTC chapter of the National Treasury Union of Member Employees admitted last week that he was aware of the termination of the agency, but they have not yet known their scope. Email also included information about the ongoing legal efforts by the National Organization, including submitting claims at the Office of the Special Adviser to the Warmwood Systems Protection Council, as well as institutional grievances in each agency where the test staff has been terminated. FTC website now It hosts a similar noticeWith the following steps for the expired employees.
Washington Post I mentioned last week The FTC’s Equality Office has been cut from six to three employees. Last month, Ferguson was Declare The “Dei has ended in FTC”, and said it “ended the diversity council” at the agency. However, the scope of the last test endings seems distinct from these directives.
Also last week, Duj told FTC employees in Washington that they would soon move to the evacuated building by the USAID. according to BloombergAnd effectively dismantled.