Truth sandwich: Most federal civilian employees who work remotely were given the option to keep working remotely if they agreed to resign by September.

[govtrack@mastodon.social]

Truth sandwich: Most federal civilian employees who work remotely were given the option to keep working remotely if they agreed to resign by September. The media and at least one senator seem to be *incorrectly * describing it as a buyout/severance (i.e. paid to quit) based on early incorrect reporting --- but that's not what happened. What happened is that return-to-office is being used as a mechanism to reduce the federal workforce by getting people who have better options to quit voluntarily.

[20002ist@thepit.social]

@GovTrack Putting aside whether these people can be trusted to keep their word LOLOLOL, is this capped at a lousy $25K? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3522#b

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

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[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@GovTrack How are they paying for this?

[craigburdett@mastodon.social]

@GovTrack And the vacuum left by those workers will be filled by outsourcing essential government functions to private companies.

[govtrack@mastodon.social]

@20002ist It seems like you didn't read our post at all.

[govtrack@mastodon.social]

@SueDiOh How are they paying for what? It seems like you may not have actually read our post.

[joeturpin@mastodon.world]

@GovTrack "most"? Is working from home the deciding factor or some other group affiliation?

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@GovTrack How are they paying for the buy-outs. That's lump sum, I believe?

[govtrack@mastodon.social]

@JoeTurpin By "most" I meant that I believe every civilian federal employee actually got the offer by email, but it may not apply to everyone based on their particular job function including that some jobs may have statutory requirements in law.