In the first week of the New Trump administration, more than 2 million federal workers in the country were quickly announced, that is, long -term work protection and remote office were suddenly revoked. The second week brought a kind of carrot: Federal employees can resign before February 6, and can continue to obtain salary and benefits in late September.
The government and its supporters touted the proposal, and Elon Musk, a billionaire, attacking the government’s billionaire, called it “very generous”.
But for many workers, this is just what. Some people think that this proposal cannot be implemented. Even if it is not illegal, federal employees and union leaders describe them as another aspect of the government’s unparalleled movement, so that they can leave as much as possible.
It is still to be observed whether some people will leave the federal service, because many people have begun to find other jobs, but what they leave, and what their resignation has the ability to take the government.
“Quality will decline,” Everett Kelley, chairman of the United States’ largest Federal Employee Federation Federation Federation. “Because these are people with such professional knowledge. When the quality starts to decline, in addition to saying,” Federal government failed us. “
He and others were worried about experienced workers: According to the Pew Research Center, more than a quarter of federal employees were 55 years old or more. Half half have a bachelor’s degree or senior degree. According to PEW (PEW), in the United States (US International Development Agency) in the United States in recent days, it has been a special goal. Among them Bachelor of Science.
A federal lawyer said: “People leave, the number of brain loss of retired or fired will not be underestimated.” A federal lawyer who plans to leave as soon as possible, and like other people, because of concerns, he is anonymous because of concerns of retribution. And speaking.
Trump ally refuted this concern. The White House said it is expected to have 5 % to 10 % of the federal labor for more than 200,000 people accepting this proposal.
The North Carolina Republican Senator Ted Budd said: “These people are talented people, I dare to be a talented person.” If they do not work for the federal government, they will be in Other places do well. “
Nevertheless, the scale and intensity of the movement of bureaucratic agencies in Mr. Trump still plagued some officials from some places far from Washington, and only about one -fifth of the civilian federal labor in Washington. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are distributed across the country, working in the office, workplace and laboratory in main cities and rural areas.
“I think this proves that the White House is talking quickly, but I don’t really think of everything,” said Lilylimón, a city councilor, more than 10,000 federal workers. “For those who all all of this, they have a lot of pressure and a lot of trauma.”
According to people familiar with the internal dialogue of the organization, on Wednesday, federal employees warned each other that the resignation offer may be a setting, and some supervisors even suggested that their employees should not accept it immediately. The warning of lawyers, union leaders, and Democratic Party legislators has supported this unbelievable belief. They insist that the Personnel Management Office has no legal power to make this guarantee hopeful.
“Don’t be fooled!” Tim Kaine, a Virginian Democratic party, said that the president had no right to pay people who did not work for several months.
Although some federal workers are completely out of reach, according to the 2024 report of the management and budget office, most people work at the work site or office. Nevertheless, for many years, it has been working remotely at least a few days a few days a week, and the Trump administration has always believed that some of the recent orders, such as all employees need full -time jobs to promote people withdrawn.
Trump said on Wednesday: “We don’t want them to work at home, because as we all know, most of the time, they have no job, and their productivity is not very effective.”
He added: “We believe that many people will not work, so our government will become smaller and more effective. This is what we have been doing for many people for decades.”
These clearly pointed out goals, as well as vague and contradictory guidance in some cases, have caused many federal workers to have skepticism, including the resignation proposal, for their greatest interests.
In the communication of the plan, the government gave a confusing answer to the terms of the quotation. Emails to employees said that those who accept transactions do not have to return to the office, no matter what their “daily workload”, they will get payment; the memorandum of the person in charge of the institution says Administrative leave, but the agency has the right to ask them to pass the transition work; the Q & A page posted by the Personnel Management Office said that employees do not have to work.
The X account is the new government efficiency department. The department is helping to supervise the government’s labor force for overhaul, which is more clear.
An article says: “You can spend the holiday you have always wanted, or just watching movies, relaxing, and receiving all your government salaries and benefits.”
Doreen Greenwald, President of the Ministry of Finance, represents about 150,000 federal workers on behalf of 37 institutions. He urged members not to accept this proposal. She said: “Without any understanding why it provides them to employees, without any guarantee for employees, we will not recommend employees to resign.”
Union leaders, elected officials, and workers said that the offer may even be illegal, partly because it avoided the rights and union agreements that had been reached. Some people say that the personnel office may have no right to make such proposals. In addition, because the government only funded in mid -March, there is no funding to support the offer.
In addition to these issues, Kristin Alden, a lawyer specializing in federal employment issues, said: “In fact, there is no mechanism to perform the clause of the offer.
This situation has left hundreds of thousands of anxiety and confusing federal employees. In the past few days, it has been burned by a series of orders, and has made serious decisions and sparse information.
Some workers regard this proposal as a small victory, which is a way to make it unstable when looking for other jobs in the next few months. Republican members responded to this view.
“I am excited,” said Joe Wilson on behalf of Joe Wilson that his South Carolina includes a large number of federal workers. “I think this is a true active way to solve this problem. People with legal people have not returned to the office. This is a good way they quit.”
However, many federal workers, even those who planned to leave are very doubtful.
An employee of the Ministry of Energy is also a federal employee. The proposal (if so) persuaded her to persist for longer. She said, “I won’t let you relax.”
In addition to the proposed “deferred resignation” plan itself, the email of the federal worker announced the proposal also announced that in the future, employees will “comply with enhanced applicability and behavioral standards.” Some federal workers regard it as the government will find any possible reasons to dismiss workers who are unwilling to resign.
For Mr. Trump’s supporters, federal bureaucratic agencies should have been eliminated. Moreover, many people think that the government is generous in helping bring such an outflow.
“I think this is great.” I think it means that if they don’t want to go back to work and they are looking for exports, “said Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. “
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