Last Friday, President Trump issued three executive orders aimed at getting rid of low-performing federal workers. The orders promote basing employment on merit rather than tenure, encourage agencies to fire employees instead of suspending them, and encourage workers to devote at least 75 percent of their time on direct job duties.
J. David Cox Sr., president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a union for federal workers, said the orders were “a classic example of this administration’s attack and assault on women, attack and assault on minorities.” So, getting rid of low-performing workers is an attack on women and minorities.
If this is true, then who are the high-performing workers?
