Federal Worker Unions Answer Musk's 'What Did You Do Last Week?' Threat With Lawsuit
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President Donald Trump called the threatening email “genius,” but some federal agencies have instructed employees not to respond.
Federal workers are challenging a government agency’s policy in a newly amended lawsuit filed on Sunday after Elon Musk said that if employees do not respond to an email demanding to know what they did the previous week, it will be taken as resignation.
In an email labeled “high importance,” the Office of Personnel Management asked federal workers across all government agencies on Saturday to reply with approximately five bullet points stating what they accomplished last week. The email asked workers to respond before midnight on the following Monday. It also told them to refrain from sending any classified information, links or attachments and to copy their managers.
The American Federation of Government Employees, along with a number of other unions representing federal workers, allege in the lawsuit that the OPM email violated the law. The allegations echo the AFGE’s statements in a letter to the OPM it also sent on Sunday.
The coalition of unions says the OPM did not comply with any procedural requirements in order to implement the new policy, claiming the office failed to publish a notice “in the Federal Register or anywhere else.”
The original lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenged the OPM’s “assembly-line fashion” firing of probationary employees.
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