Trump Offering Buyouts To Federal Workers Who Choose To Resign
Trump Offering Buyouts To Federal Workers Who Choose To Resign By Feb. 6
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to offer buyouts to federal workers who don’t want to return to the office.
This “deferred resignation” would include a severance package of roughly eight months’ pay and benefits. The administration says it expects five to ten percent of the federal workforce to quit.
A senior administration official says that could lead to roughly one billion dollars in savings.
The buyout offer is set to go out through a new system that allows officials the ability to email all federal employees at once. The resignation period opened Tuesday and runs through February 6th.
The memo also says Trump “will insist on excellence at every level,” and while some parts of the government’s workforce may increase under his administration, “The majority of federal agencies are likely to be downsized.”
In response, American Federation of Government Employees union President Everett Kelley said it should not be viewed as voluntary buyouts, but pressuring workers not considered loyal to the new administration to vacate their jobs.
“Purging the federal government of dedicated career federal employees will have vast, unintended consequences that will cause chaos for the Americans who depend on a functioning federal government,” Kelley said in a statement. “Between the flurry of anti-worker executive orders and policies, it is clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to turn the federal government into a toxic environment where workers cannot stay even if they want to.”
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