Washington – A federal judge temporarily blocked the deadline of the Personnel Management Office for federal employees to accept the “Deferred Resignation” offer of the Trump Administration.
The US District George O’Toole prevented the agency from implementing the deadline of the program during a brief hearing held hours before federal workers had to notify OPM if they would accept or reject the offer to get away from their positions.
A lawyer of the Department of Justice said that OPM would notify federal employees that the deadline stops waiting for other legal procedures.
The Personnel Management Office sent a email Last week with the “bifurcation on the way” line that offered more than 2 million federal employees “Deferred resignation”. According to the program, they could give up their positions and retain full wages and benefits until September 30. Federal workers who agreed to resign would also be exempt from Work requirements in person Until September, the email declared.
Employees received until February 6 to accept or reject the offer.
For those who chose to maintain their positions, OPM’s message said the Trump administration could not give “total guarantee regarding the certainty of its position or agency.” He also pointed out that “most federal agencies are probable to be reduced through current restructuring, realignments and reductions” as part of Trump’s efforts to reform the Federal Labor Force.
Approximately 40,000 federal workers, or about 2% of the government’s workforce, have accepted the agreement, said a source familiar with the matter to CBS News. But the White House expects that number to increase as the deadline to accept the raffles closer.
The OPM email subject line is the same as an email of 2022 as billionaire Elon Musk sent to Twitter employees, the social media platform that he bought that year and renowned X. The White House has said that Musk is working on the Trump administration as a “Special Government Employee” leading the White House Government efficiency department, or Doge, which the president established in order to reduce spending and restructure federal agencies.
Days after OPM presented its offer, a group of four unions representing more than 800,000 federal employees demanded the agency and its interim director, Charles Ezell, arguing the so -called Bifurcation Directive, as the unions call it, viola the federal law.
“If these employees leave or are forced in mass, the country will suffer a dangerous blow,” the unions said in their complaint. “First, the Government will lose experience in the complex fields and programs that Congress, by statute, has ordered the Executive who faithfully implemented. The Government will have less qualified employees to execute the tasks requested by the state that still remain. The vacant positions are They politicize, as this administration seeks to do, partisanship is elevated by the capacity and truth, to the detriment of the missions of the American agency and people. “
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