Last week, a mass email from the Trump administration stole the agency, asking what federal employees did and the announcement that anyone who doesn’t respond would be rejected.
Some agencies advised workers to refrain from responding and set up a showdown with masks. However, other agencies have told employees to be told that unions are pledged to legal challenges.
Is it legal to fire? Musk cannot legally force federal employees to resign, and attempting to do so would constitute an unwilling dismissal, federal employment law expert Michael Falllings told CNN. Ta. If workers are affected, they can file a request to challenge the action. Employees should discuss emails with their managers. If so, the union official states that it applies before responding.
This is what officials are telling their workers:
Leaders from the Pentagon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy all instructed staff not to respond to emails received by federal workers from the Department of Personnel Management on Saturday afternoon.
Several senior Pentagon officials told CNN that emails had plunged into confusion over the weekend.
“It’s the stupidest thing I’ve seen in 40 years and completely takes away the chain of command,” one source said. “It may be done elsewhere, but with DOD it’s not done.”
Ministry of Health and Human Services: HHS initially instructed employees to comply with the employees. However, the agency later reversed the guidance and instructed employees to “suspend” their email responses.
Employees from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, which is part of the HHS, have been told by individual agencies to wait for further guidance until Monday.
NASA is working to issue guidance on how employees should respond after first asking workers to follow them.
Workers from the Social Security and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were told to follow.
Many CFPB employees hoping the Trump administration will be demolished were told to quit their jobs earlier this month. Sunday emails say, “If you were unable to perform a task/work, you can simply respond and refer to your current suspension of work.”
Last month, National Road Safety Commission employees, tasked with investigating an unprecedented series of air disasters, were asked to justify what they did on work last week. It is not clear how NTSB staff will be instructed to respond. The deadline for responses is Monday at 11:59pm.
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