Wait?
Wasn’t these people PAID to be OFF from March to THIS Month?
Seems this IS a ‘screw you’ to Musk’s DOGE people who used a meat axe to make cuts in the Labor Dept. and elsewhere….
Well?
Seems that Deparetement and Agency Heads have been given the Ok to REHIRE people in ‘critical mission’ jobs…
Sooooo?
We?
The taxpayer just PAID for ‘paid time off’ for hundreds, or could be thosands of Federal workers involved in a Musk DOGE ewxperiement that seems to be screw up?
Ah?
No big media story but Musk IS on the hook for humdreds of million’s settlement payback’s to those he fired from Twitter (X) ….
His ‘cutting’ ain’t turning out to be anything of what he boasted it would be…
Staffers who opted into the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, voluntarily taking paid administrative leave with the expectation of leaving their jobs, are returning to the US Labor Department….
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The agency’s internal website for processing employee IT requests also has a banner reading “Welcoming Back Returning DRP Employees,” according to a screenshot shared with Bloomberg Law.
The reinstatements demonstrate the whiplash federal workers face when President Donald Trump’s directives to shrink the government collide with the demands of an agency’s day-to-day work. At least one other agency, the Internal Revenue Service, made similar decisions to claw back staff lost to the deferred resignation program.
The Labor Department is considering DRP rescissions for 100 positions that are “mission-critical roles,” agency spokesperson Courtney Parella said in an emailed statement. The reversal was necessary “to address critical mission needs while maintaining our goal of cutting bureaucratic waste and streamlining operations,” she said….
Note ….
I remember reading somewhere an oldtime US Government employee saying….
” The ‘System’ ALWAYS Win’s’……
Looks like its doing so now …
There have actually been more people returning...