Executive Director Tesla and Spacex Elon Musk speaks at a conservative conference on political actions (CPAC) at the Hotel and Congress Center Gayelord National Resort, February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
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The Federal Staff Management Office on Monday underestimated the threat of Elon Musk that government workers who do not surrender to the list of their recent achievements will face a forced “resignation”.
OPM on Monday informed the top government’s human resistance officers “that employees’ responses to the E -AS OPM” demanding a list of achievements in the workplace “voluntary”, according to the internal E -place sent by the head of the human resource of the Ministry of Justice, and received by NBC News.
“The OPM also explained that the email response is not equated with the resignation,” the email said.
The update followed a few hours after the news broke up about the newly taken a lawsuit This noticed a recent threat of male.
New application in San Francisco Federal Court He came in the middle of a mess and controversy about whether federal employees would respond to the E -OPM on Saturday, which requires such lists by Monday night.
Some major departments, including the Pentagon, told their employees to give up the answer at the OPM request. Others, including the Department of Health and Human Services and its Branch for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told their workers to adhere to their workers.
Musk was borrowed by the president Donald Trump with a decrease in the consumption of the Federal Government – and the number of federal workers. IN Tesla The Executive Director called this effort “Doge”, which is for the effectiveness of the Ministry of Government.
The lawsuit was amended on Sunday for the first time on Wednesday, a group of unions representing federal workers against the OPM OPM acting director of the OPM Charles Ezell.
The lawsuit asks the judge to enjoy OPM to abolish “tens of thousands of federal employees in contrast to the Federal Constitutional and Legal Law.
On February 13, OPM ordered the Federal Agency “through the Government to effectively eliminate the category of probationary employee, by massively abolishing tens of thousands of federal employees,” the suit states
The lawsuit was amended after the OPM in its e -Stand conducted a “new compulsory reporting program for all federal employees, notes for the appeal.
E -Af, from the new OPM address E -Star, has had a title, “What did you do last week?”
“Body E -šte stated: Answer this E -Ap with approximately 5 bullets of what you have achieved last week and your manager,” UE -Poruci said. “The deadline is this Monday at 11:59 Est.”
Before Saturday, federal workers were not obliged to submit any reports on their work of OPM, the lawsuit notes.
On Saturday, Musk wrote on his website of the Social Media X: “In accordance with the instructions of the President @realdonalddruldrum, all federal employees will soon receive the E -State, seeking to understand what they have done last week.”
“The failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk added in that tweet.
The men’s threat was condemned by Everett Kelley, president US Federation of Government EmployeesOne of the unions that sue the municipality.
“Once again, Elon Musk and Trump’s administration have shown their ultimate contempt for federal employees and critical services provided by the American people,” Kelley said in a statement.
“It is also cruel to disrespect hundreds of thousands of veterans who carry their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their work duties towards this, a privileged, unexplained billionaire who has never performed a single hour sincere public service in his life,” Kelley said .
The amended lawsuit says that before Saturday, “no notice was published, in the Federal Register or anywhere else, regarding any OPM program, a rule, politics or a regulation that requires all federal employees to submit a report regarding their work Opm -u. “
Opm “did not meet any procedural requirements … Given this new program,” the lawsuit said.
And the lawsuit, she noted, after sending an explosive E -administration of federal workers on Saturday, “at least some federal agencies, including the federal investigating office, began to speak to their employees not to respond to this request for the OPM surprise.”
In addition to the FBI, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defense, the State Department and the National Intelligence Agency sent their employees not to respond immediately to the OPM E -og.
But the transportation department told employees to answer, the UE -Business reported by NBC News on Monday.
“Also, ensure that you turn off classified data, connections and attachments,” the UE -Poruci says.
Later on Monday, the judge scheduled a hearing for Thursday afternoon at the request of the Union for a temporary restraint order that blocks mass breaks.
