The Trump administration has spent its first several days in office waging a pressure campaign on the federal workforce. In early messages, the administration told employees that they had a new obligation to inform on other workers that may surreptitiously be carrying out DEI policies, and banned external communications at several agencies.
The administration tested its ability to send communications to all 2.3 million federal employees from a single email address.
Directives to end WFH arrangements are leaving some federal employees confused and scrambling to rework their lives. Why it matters: The clock has started. Following President Trump's orders, the Office of Personal Management (OPM) gave federal workers roughly a month's heads-up to be back in the office full-time.
A new memo from the human capital agency says federal agencies should change policies and require workers to be in the office full time by the end of the week.
The Office of Personnel Management — the government’s top human resources agency – notified federal department heads in a memo that DEI program employees must be notified by 5 p.m. Wednesday
Employees at federal facilities such as Letterkenny Army Depot, Tobyhanna Army Depot and United States Penitentiary Canaan will receive wages based on the same local scales used to calculate the pay of their salaried co-workers beginning on Oct.
The Education Department has begun dropping references to “harmful” DEI initiatives from its public-facing communication channels. Additionally, the department has placed employees
President Donald Trump’s administration is testing a new capability that would allow officials to email the entire federal government workforce at once.
A memo from the White House's Office of Personnel Management criticized "virtually unrestricted" telework and laid out next steps for agency heads.
The Office of Personnel Management has created a new email account meant to collect reports of suspected diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, one of a series of moves the Trump administration has taken to slash DEI efforts across the federal workforce.