Washington – On Thursday, a federal judge has temporarily prevented the staff management office for federal employees to accept the “deferred resignation” of the Trump administration.
The provincial judge in the United States prevented the agency, George Outol, from implementing the deadline of the program during a short hearing held hours before federal workers demanded that OPM notify whether they accept or refuse to stay away from their sites.
The lawyer of the Ministry of Justice said that OPM will make a notice to federal employees that the deadline will stop temporarily pending other legal procedures. The OPM CBS News official told the agencies that “the agencies will remain able to address the resignation until this new deadline requested by the court.”
Send the employee management office Email Last week with the topic line “Thorn on the road” I offered more than 2 million federal employees “Dealing resignation.” Under the program, they can resign from their positions and keep full wages and benefits until September 30. Federal workers who agreed to resign will be exempted Personal work requirements Until September, email.
The employees previously had until February 6 to accept or reject the offer. The program is not available to military personnel, American postal service employees, or those whose work is related to immigration and national security, according to OPM.
For those who chose to keep their positions, the message from OPM noticed that the Trump administration could not give “a complete guarantee regarding the confirmation of your position or your agent.” It also noted that “the majority of federal agencies are likely to be reduced through restructuring, reorganization and discounts in force” as part of Mr. Trump’s efforts to reform the federal workforce.
in existing From the “circulating questions” about the show, the agency said that workers who accept the proposed acquisition are not expected to work in their government job during the postponed resignation period and will be allowed to obtain a second job.
About 40,000 federal workers – or about 2 % of the government workforce – this deal, according to the White House press secretary Caroline Levitte. But the White House expects this number to rise.
Days after OPM filed its presentation, a group of four unions representing more than 800,000 federal employees filed a lawsuit against the agency and its Acting Director, Charles Ezel, under the pretext of the so -called thorn, as the unions call it federal law.
“If these employees leave or are forced to go out collectively, the country will suffer from one dangerous punch,” the unions said in their complaint. First, the government will lose its experience in the complex areas and programs of Congress, according to the statute, by directing the executive authority to implement honestly. Administration to do it, partisanship is high on ability and truth, at the expense of the agency and American people. “
They pointed out that the financing of federal agencies is scheduled to end on March 14, and there is no accreditation from Congress to cover the salaries of government workers after that date.
They asked the judge to prevent OPM from implementing the deadline on February 6.
The OPM e -mail line is the same as an e -mail for 2022 that billionaire Elon Musk sent to Twitter employees, and the social media platform he bought in that year and called it X. “A private government employee” White House leadership Ministry of Governmental efficiency, Or Doug, which was established by President Trump with the aim of reducing spending and restructuring federal agencies.
The proposed acquisition provided by the Trump administration has sparked fears of employment lawyer, because its components are unclear and lack the guarantees, many CBS News stated. It is also not clear that the Trump administration has the authority to create such a program, as the unions have claimed in their legal challenge.
Ten state lawyers also warned of federal employees of accepting what they said was a “misleading” resignation.
The deferred resignation program is one of the many initiatives by Mr. Trump since his return to the White House, which aims to reduce the size of the federal government. President I command Millions of federal workers to return to the office full time and direct agencies to end the work arrangements.
His administration also took the goal The United States Agency for International DevelopmentOrusaid, About all its employees are placed On vacation and request her external tasks to close it.
Ed Okif contributed to this report.