US federal workers weigh Trump’s buyout offer: ‘We’re feeling petty as hell’
by Jedidajah Otte and Rachel Obordo from World news | The Guardian on (#6V2TQ)
Some civil servants determined to stick it out' as president and Elon Musk push for mass resignations: We're not even sure what is being offered is legal'
Amy*, a federal US government employee working for homeland security who was hired by the Joe Biden administration's refugee programme, has not left her phone out of her sight since last Tuesday, when the Elon Musk-led push for mass voluntary redundancies of government workers began.
Since the US office of personnel management (OPM) sent nearly all of the federal government's 3 million employees an email offering them deferred resignations and warning that, if they choose to stay, they may be laid off or reassigned, US career civil servants have been weighing their options.
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