- Federal Workers’ Management Office requested to send a list of their achievements via e -mail during the past week.
- A number of federal agencies told their employees that they are not required to respond.
- Some agencies said that the response was voluntary, while others said they would respond on behalf of the employees.
Some federal agencies respond to the e -mail of the product of the worker at Elon Musk: Thank you, but no thanks.
An increasing number of agencies tells their workers that they are not required to respond to the email sent from the Personnel Management Office during the weekend to request a list of achievements from last week.
According to the Business Insider emails, some employees agents told them that they would respond to OPM on their behalf. Others said that the response was voluntary, and failure will not lead to any penalties.
In a post at X on Saturday, Musk said that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” but the first email did not make the same claim. This comes after the last loud weeks for federal workers; A number of agencies ended thousands of employees last week after directives from President Donald Trump and Moses Dog to reduce government waste.
These are the federal agencies that have been achieved BI, which has so far told its workers that they do not need to respond to the OPM email before the deadline of 11:59 pm Monday evening.
Ministry of Defense
On Sunday, the Ministry of Defense published that its employees should “stop any response” to the OPM email.
“The Ministry of Defense is responsible for reviewing the performance of its employees, and any review will be conducted according to its own procedures,” the statement said.
Social Security Administration
On Sunday, the Social Security Department sent an email to its employees to tell them that the OPM email is a “legal mission” and those who received it required to respond.
However, the agency continued on Monday afternoon the employees told that any “voluntary” response.
The email said: “No correspondence is a resignation,” the email said.
Nassa
NASA sent her email to her employees on Monday afternoon, saying: “You are not asked to respond, and there is no effect on your job with the agency if you choose not to respond.”
The agency said that it will respond on behalf of the employees and that “the employees should continue to feel the ability to report their activities and their achievements” to their supervisors.
Ministry of Justice
Julien Ann Louor, Assistant Prosecutor of the Public Prosecution of Administration at the Ministry of Justice, was sent via email on Monday: “Because of the secret and sensitive nature of the administration’s work, the Ministry of Justice employees do not need to respond to the email from OPM.”
Bloomberg Law I mentioned This was a reflection of the former directives of Luria, which ordered employees to respond to the email.
Ministry of Agriculture
The US Department of Agriculture told employees on Monday afternoon that the response to the email is “voluntary”, and that “there is no punishment for not responding to the request.”
The US Department of Agriculture’s instructions said that those who choose to respond must refrain from providing any sensitive or secret information.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told employees that it would respond on behalf of the agency.
“There is no employee obligated to report his activities outside his leadership series,” the ministry said.
Ministry of Energy
The Ministry of Energy, via e -mail, sent its employees on Sunday evening, and directed them to “stop” any responses to the email of the OPM deposit.
“The Ministry of Energy is responsible for reviewing the performance of its employees, and any review will be conducted according to its own procedures,” the ministry said. “When necessary, if necessary, the administration will provide a coordinated response to the OPM e -mail response.”
Ministry of Health and Human Services
The Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services told employees that, based on discussions with OPM officials, they did not need to respond to the first email.
“OPM has now canceled these mandatory requirements,” HHS said in an email. “There are no HHS expectations that HHS employees will respond to OPM and there is no effect on your job with the agency if you choose not to respond.”
Email said that those who respond should do so “at a high level of publicity” and protect sensitive information. They must “assume that what you write will read by the malicious foreign actors and design your response accordingly.”
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