Well NOT backi to work actually….
Following a judges order and Cabinet/Angencies Leadesr’s complaints?
The Defense Department is complying with a judge’s order to reinstate probationary employees sent packing after the Office of Personnel Management directed agencies to fire them en masse, according to a Wednesday court filing.
The Pentagon had terminated 364 probationary staff since mid-February, the department’s interim deputy personnel director said in a response to a court request for information. So far, 65 have been reinstated or had their termination notices rescinded.
“The remainder are pending notification, declined to accept the officer of reinstatement, or requested additional time to consider the offer,” Tim Dill wrote in his March 19 declaration to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Returning employees will initially be placed on administrative leave while they finish the onboarding process, according to the filing.
The filing also says that the probationary employees were fired “in light of recent OPM guidance”—contradicting Dill’s boss, who declared in a March 3 memo that the department had independently decided to terminate probationary employees….
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