The Trump administration on Tuesday released a memorandum in which federal government workers were given financial incentives to step down by the end of September.
The resignation program is part of the administration’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce.
For many of 2 million federal workers, an email said that by the end of the government’s financial year, remain on the government’s payroll by 30 September, and can reduce or eliminate their work duties in the interim.
Those workers will be pre -trumped as a trump mandate that employees need to return to work in their offices throughout the time.
Employees have until 6 February to accept the proposal, and was directed to do so with email answer with the word “resignation”.
The possible impact of the program on tax-payer services was not clear.
Memo said, “While some agencies and even army branches are likely to see an increase in the size of their workforce, most of the federal agencies are likely to be reduced through reorganization, revaluation and decrease in force,” Memo said.
People working for immigration, national security and postal service were not part of the proposal.
Memo said that “the federal workforce should be included in employees who are reliable, loyal, reliable, and who try for excellence in their daily work.”
The union represents federal employees who criticized the administration’s move.
The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents about 150,000 federal workers, told its members to resign memo, “designed to woo or intimidate you in resignation” and said “We firmly urge you Do not resign in response. “
The American Federation of Government Employees Union head Aleret Kelly, including some VOA employees, stated in a statement that the proposal should not be “seen as voluntary” and the administration show its goal “its goal” “convert the federal government into a toxic Is “the environment where they want, even if they cannot live.
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