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.
It was no surprise when President Donald Trump this week issued a memorandum to the heads of federal departments and agencies, essentially directing them to get their employees back to the office full-time.
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.
Many who work in the federal government knew that an incoming Trump administration would take aim at diversity, equity and inclusion jobs within their ranks.
OPM asked federal agencies to compile lists of workers to consider terminating, reflecting DOGE's goals to cut the government workforce.
Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Agencies were told to make plans for layoffs.
President Donald Trump ordered the end of diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government and moved to have officials working on them put on leave by the time they clock out from their jobs on Wednesday.
VERIFY readers asked if workers were really told they would face “adverse consequences” if they did not help identify “disguised” diversity and inclusion roles.
Existing authorities allow the president-elect to make certain temporary appointments during the transition to a new administration.
President Donald Trump focused on the federal workforce as he signed executive ... Border Patrol and Department of Education employees. “What we saw from OPM, they sent out a blanket email to all federal agencies saying if you engaged in renaming these ...
President Donald Trump has struck a number of blows to DEI in the federal government. Only time will tell if he is successful in rooting out this ideology.