Anxiety mounts as U.S. government workers face buyout deadline

The future of millions of federal workers was plunged into another day of chaos Thursday as they faced fresh uncertainty over an unprecedented program pushing financial incentives in exchange for quitting their jobs.

The future of millions of federal workers was plunged into another day of chaos Thursday as they faced fresh uncertainty over an unprecedented program pushing financial incentives in exchange for quitting their jobs.

All they’d need to do, the Trump administration told them, was reply to an email with the word “resign” in the subject line. As many fretted over the 11:59 p.m. ET deadline to make a potentially life-altering decision, a federal judge stepped in with a temporary reprieve — there would be a block on the program pending a hearing on Monday.

Then came the memo.

Sent from the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, it directed government agency heads to turn over information about any employees who have had poor performance reviews over the last three years.

Their employer, he said, was “developing new performance metrics for evaluating the federal workforce that aligns with the priorities and standards” of President Donald Trump.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anxiety-mounts-us-government-workers-face-buyout-deadline-rcna190987


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