OPM directs agencies to quickly comply with Trump’s return-to-office mandate
OPM memo gives federal agencies deadline to let employees know they must return to the office
According to the memo, OPM is requiring all federal agencies to notify their employees by Friday at 5 p.m. of their compliance with the executive order. Agencies are also mandated to update their telework policies with new language emphasizing in-person attendance.
Local unions critical of President Trump’s executive orders affecting federal workers
The mandates end remote work arrangements, implement a federal hiring freeze, and order the termination of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
It was no surprise when President Donald Trump this week issued a memorandum to the heads of federal departments and agencies, essentially directing them to get their employees back to the office full-time.
A new memo from the human capital agency says federal agencies should change policies and require workers to be in the office full time by the end of the week.
The Office of Personnel Management has created a new email account meant to collect reports of suspected diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, one of a series of moves the Trump administration has taken to slash DEI efforts across the federal workforce.
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Longtime federal workers say they have become pawns in a battle for political control, that their DEI work is misunderstood and they fear they're under surveillance.
President Donald Trump ordered the end of diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government and moved to have officials working on them put on leave by the time they clock out from their jobs on Wednesday.
Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Agencies were told to make plans for layoffs.
Existing authorities allow the president-elect to make certain temporary appointments during the transition to a new administration.
VERIFY readers asked if workers were really told they would face “adverse consequences” if they did not help identify “disguised” diversity and inclusion roles.
President Donald Trump has struck a number of blows to DEI in the federal government. Only time will tell if he is successful in rooting out this ideology.
All federal officials overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion will be put on paid leave by Wednesday evening.
The Office of Personnel Management tells agency and department heads they must close all DEIA offices by the end of Wednesday and put government workers in those offices on paid leave.
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