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According to one, federal workers who do not want to go back to the office are being offered to buy Memo Tuesday night was posted on the US Office of Personal Management website.
According to a Trump administration official and an OPM spokesman, CNN had previously expected the purchase offers.
The administration has ordered federal workers, many of whom made flexible arrangements for work after pandemic disease, back to the office back to the office. The purchase workers will need to resign by February 6 and will pay for payment by September 30.
The heads of the federal agency were told in the last day that it was coming, the official said.
The memo, which outline the new policy, states that the agency emailed federal employees “offering a delayed resignation on January 28, 2025.”
Email was sent from HR1@opm.gov using the Trump administration’s new mass email system.
The email states, “The president requires that employees return to work personally, restoration of accountability for employees who have the policy of policy making, restored accountability for senior career executives. , And the process of hiring federal services to focus on merit will result in reforms in the federal manpower.
Employees who do not purchase cannot be given a “full assurance” about their position or agency assurance, email continued, but if their job is terminated, “of dignity with them Will be treated with such positions. ”
The program begins effectively from January 28 and is available until February 6.
“If you resign under this program, you will maintain all salaries and benefits regardless of your daily workloads and until September 30, 2025 (or before you have your resignation if you have any reason If you choose to speed up, you will be exempt from all working needs. ”
“People are stunned, upset, surprised and a little scared,” said CNN, a federal employee received email.
All employees of the federal government are being offered that the OPM spokesman described it as an administrative holiday. A spokesman for the OPM said the Trump administration says the move could be a ramp for federal employees who do not want to go back to the full -time office, but any government employee can take purchases.
However, there are some exceptions about the purchase: postal workers, military members, immigration officials, some national security roles that will not explain the administration and any other role about which agencies are essential will not be inaugurated. , Sources said.
Axios The first report was about the purchase.
Email to federal employees on Tuesday also noted that the move to create a more smooth and flexible manpower was “the possibility of using the Frubu and custom -re -rating for a large number of federal employees. ” CNN had earlier reported Donald Trump’s plan to re -divide tens of thousands of civil service workers as it was very easy to dismiss ATwill employees.
I A separate memo provider provider On purchase, OPM asked the agency heads to provide information every week until September 30, which is resigning and retiring.
Federal employees had an e -mailing article “Thorn in the road”, the same ultimatum message Elon Musk’s article in which his employees were sent on Twitter in 2022. On the way to the campaign, Kasturi often talked about decreasing the federal government. An official told CNN that he, while guiding the performance of the government in the Trump administration, told CNN that he had played an essential role in the federal government’s purchase rollout.
“We will reduce a lot of government head coot, but we are going to give a long separation,” Musk told a Philadelphia rally in October. “Like two years, or something like that.”
The offer to federal employees on Tuesday fell far beyond the time.
The move came when the Trump administration tightened its grip on the federal bureaucracy, which the president has long presented as a “deep state” and has vowed to end it.
Immediately to the opening. Later, Trump ordered federal agencies to return to employees The office signed a full -time and order that aims to weaken the safety of federal employees. He also ordered the agencies to work within 60 days to eliminate diversity, equity and involvement offices and positions and terminated the use of DEI in the job and federal agreement.
CNN earlier said that orders have frightened federal workers and their representative unions, which has left employees worried about their jobs and their ability to carry out these missions. They were attracted to public service.
The National Treasury Employees Union on Tuesday sent a message to the workers saying that the purchase offer was a horrific tactic and urged them not to resign.
The message states that “Don’t make a mistake: This email is designed to resign or frighten you from the federal government.” “We are closely reviewing the email and will have more information tomorrow. However, we urge you not to resign in response to this email.
The US Federation of Government Employees, the largest Federal Workers Union, argued Tuesday that purchase is part of a major plan to get rid of government employees.
“This offer should not be seen voluntarily. It is clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to transform the federal government into a toxic environment where workers cannot live. He said in a statement.
This story and headline have been updated with additional details.
CNN’s Tami Lohbi, Sarah Deobiri, Sean Langas, Jeff Zilini and Pat Montein participated in the report.
