OPM Chief Won’t Testify in Mass Federal Layoffs Challenge (2)

Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Charles Ezell won’t testify at a March 13 hearing in a lawsuit by government employee unions challenging the Trump Administration’s mass layoffs of federal workers, after a federal court ordered him to appear.

In a notice filed Tuesday, the government said that it was withdrawing Ezell’s declaration, making his testimony unnecessary.

“Because the Court’s stated purpose of bringing Mr. Ezell to the hearing was to obtain testimony from him regarding the contentions made in his declaration, Defendants therefore submit that his presence is no longer necessary at any hearing given that this declaration is ...