US EditionQ&A: Explaining OPM’s deferred resignation for federal workers
- President Donald Trump's administration offered federal employees a "deferred resignation" to collect eight months of salary until September 2025, according to a memorandum from the Office of Personnel Management.
- The Bureau of Prisons is facing challenges, including a hiring freeze and mandatory in-office work, causing uncertainty among staff, according to Acting Director William Lathrop.
- The deadline for employees to respond to the resignation offer is February 6, leading to confusion about retirement benefits and job security, according to multiple sources.
- Senator Angela Alsobrooks criticized the program as a "witch hunt" against civil servants, claiming it targets dedicated workers to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
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Reaction keeps thundering over the deferred resignation offer
Federal employee associations and unions are uniformly up in arms over the resignation request that went from the Trump administration to every federal employee. Among them the National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees, NARFE. For what it’s advising people to do NARFE Vice President John Hatton joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss more. Interview transcript: Tom Temin And John, let me begin by asking, have you ev…
Trump administration offering nearly 2 million federal workers “deferred resignation”
The Trump’s administration is offering federal workers the chance to take a “deferred resignation,” which would mean they agree now to resign but get paid through September; the offer is meant to end work-from-home practices, per CBS News. Trump administration officials said that only about 6% of federal employees work full-time in office, and there are about 2 million federal government employees across the country, which means that the adminis…
Trump offers 2 million government workers job ultimatum
Up to two million US government workers will be offered ‘delayed redundancy’ if they don’t want to give up working from home, it was revealed yesterday, Katelyn Caralle and Geoff Earle. Donald Trump’s administration has started sending emails to thousands of federal staff offering them a chance to quit while remaining on full pay until September 30. The President wants to slash the number of government workers. He has also issued an executive or…
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