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Dozens of employees in the educational department are paid on Friday as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to remove the federal labor of employees related to diversity, fairness, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives. I was on vacation.
Information has sent a letter to an employee who has stopped the e -mail account but has continued to receive salaries for indefinite periods.
The department quoted guidance from the White House Human Management Bureau issued on January 21. This means that the government agency has taken measures to be closed because all employees in DEIA offices are placed on paid management leave, so they are immediately placed on paid management leave. Ends all DEIA Initibis and program.
The agency is the latest in the White House’s efforts to eliminate the DEI programs in the government and reconstruct the federal labor in the image of President Donald Trump.
According to the US government’s employee Federation, at least 55 educational departments, including advanced career workers who have been working in institutions for decades, have been paid on Friday nights. I was notified. Career staff.
“From January 31, 2025, the President’s President’s President’s Order of DEIA and an administrative leave based on the further guidance from OPM,” said CNN, the letter was obtained. 。 “This management leave is not taken for disciplinary purposes.”
According to the union, these employees did not have the official obligations related to DEIA, but also contained staff, such as civil rights lawyers who handle student discrimination and anti -Semitism complaints. Employees working in the grant office. A member of the artificial intelligence team that supports the department to understand AI in education.
However, Sheria Smith, chairman of the Ministry of Education’s career employee, told CNN that employees on paid vacation have attended a two -day diversity training seminar in the first Trump administration. Others, similar training under the Biden administration. Other affected people have applied for a group or committee that planned a day training in DEI or a program such as Black History Mont’s celebration.
According to the union, diversity training for employees in the education department was encouraged by the first Trump administration under the Secretary of Education, Betzydebos.
The union is worried that hundreds of Ministry of Education staff may be affected by large -scale participation in the 2019 training seminar.
“We have submitted some requests to the institution to clearly understand what is happening and how many employees will be affected,” Smith told CNN. However, the union has not received additional information.
CNN contacted the Ministry of Education for comments, but did not respond.
NEW YORK TIMES first reported a letter sent to an educational department employee.
The White House ordered the government’s DEI employees to be on administrative leave last month, terminating the use of DEI in employment and federal contracts.
“The administration has stagnated because the government has been forced to stop working for Americans, so the agency’s mission is stagnant,” Smith told CNN.
The leader of the agency has also been instructed to ask an employee to report the efforts of “impersoning these programs” in the federal employment and contracts since November.
