How complicated is it to fire a federal employee?

[Ptarmigan]

How complicated is it to fire a federal employee?
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/21815635/how-complicated-is-it-to-fire-a-federal-employee#axzz2Or3bEhTH

Senator Tom Coburn wrote the Office of Personnel Management demanding that before any critical worker is furloughed, OPM should first target workers who, "are literally paid to do nothing or do not even show up for work." He wrote that over a seven year period, the government lost more than 9,000 years of work as a result of AWOL employees.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Having been involved in firing a lot of them over 20 years of doing labor law, it's more complicated than firing a temp at-will employee for sure, but it's nowhere near as impossible as everyone wants to make out when they're looking for a whipping-boy...and everything that DOES make it more difficult is directly due to laws and systems imposed by Congress itself.