Federal workers demand for Elon Musk’s threat to fire them if they do not explain their achievements

Trump Elon Musk billionaire advisor He violated the law with his weekend demand that federal employees explain their achievements or risk being fired, workers’ lawyers said Monday on a lawsuit.

The updated lawsuit, which was presented in a federal court in California and was provided to Associated Press, is trying to block Mass dismays pursued by Musk and President Donald TrumpIncluding any connected to the email distributed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Saturday. The office, which functions as a human resources agency for the federal government, said employees needed to detail five things they did last week at the end of Monday.

“No rule, regulation, politics or program of OPM, in the history of the United States, has tried to demand all federal workers to submit reports to OPM,” said the complaint, which was presented in the name of the unions, the unions, the Veterans of companies and conservation Organizations represented by the Group’s State Democracy Democracy Fund. He called the threat of massive shots “one of the most massive labor frauds in the history of this country.”

Musk, led by the Republican President efforts to review and reduce the size of the federal governmentHe continued threatening federal workers on Monday even when confusion extended through the administration and some senior officials told employees not to comply.

“Those who do not take this email seriously will promote their career elsewhere,” Musk published in X, his social networks.

He also intensified Trump’s demand for employees to stop working remotely, saying that those who do not return to the office will be placed on administrative license.

The last agitation round began during the weekend, when Trump published on his social media website: “Elon is doing a great job, but I would like to see that he becomes more aggressive.”

Musk continued to say that “all federal employees will receive an email that will request to understand what they did last week.” He said that “the lack of response will be taken as a resignation.” The directive echoed how the employer has administered their own companies.

The personnel management office sent its own application later.

“Please respond to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what he achieved last week and CC his manager, ”said the message. However, he said nothing about the potential for employees to be fired for breach. The deadline appeared as 11:59 pm Est Monday.

There was Rapid resistance of several key agencies of the United States Directed by the president’s loyal, including the FBI, the State Department, the National Security and the Pentagon, which instructed its employees during the weekend that they did not respond. The legislators of both important political parties said that Musk’s mandate can be illegal, while the unions threatened to sue.

A message on Sunday morning of the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.He instructed his 80,000 employees to meet. That was shortly after the interim general advisor, Be KeveneyHe had instructed some who did not. And for Sunday night, the agency’s leadership issued new instructions that employees must “stop the activities” related to the application until noon on Monday.

“Having done more than 70 hours of work last week advancing the priorities of the administration, he personally insulted me to receive the following email,” Keveney said in an email that recognized a broad sense of “uncertainty and stress” within the agency.

Keveney presented security concerns and pointed out that some of the work done by agency employees may be protected by the lawyer-client privilege.

However, the workers of the Department of Education were ordered to comply with Monday morning.

“The email is legitimate and employees must answer,” he wrote Rachel OglesbyDepartment of Cabinet. He added that “first -line supervisors will evaluate answers and not answers”, taking into account if employees were on approved license.

Democrats and even some Republicans, including SEN. John Curtis From Utah, criticized Musk’s ultimatum.

“If I could tell Elon Musk something, it’s like, please put a dose of compassion on this, ‘” said Curtis, whose state has 33,000 federal employees, in “Face the Nation” of CBS. “These are real people. These are real lives. These are mortgages. … It is a false narrative to say that we have to cut and that you must be cruel to do it too. “

New FBI Kash Patel directorA Trump’s open ally instructed employees to ignore Musk’s request, at least for now.

“The FBI, through the director’s office, is in charge of all our review processes and will review according to the FBI procedures,” Patel wrote in an email. “When and if more information is required, we will coordinate the answers. For now, stop any answer. “

Ed MartinInterim prosecutor of the United States for the Columbia district, sent a message to his staff on Sunday that may have caused more confusion.

“Let me clarify: we will comply with this OPM request if you responding or deciding not to answer,” Martin wrote in email.

“Please make an effort in good faith to respond and list your activities (or not, as you prefer), and, as I mentioned, it supports you with respect to any confusion,” Martin continued. “We can do this.”

The officials of the State Departments, Defense and National Security were more consistent.

Tibor NagyUndersecretary of State for the Administration, he told employees in an email that the leadership of the department would respond in the name of the workers.

Pentagon leadership instructed employees to “pause” any response to the Musk team, according to an email from Jules HurstThe Deputy Secretary of Deputy Defense for staff and preparation.

Meanwhile, the National Security Department told employees that “no reporting action is needed at this time” and that the agency’s managers would respond, according to an email from RD alesUndersecutive Undersecretary for Management.

Thousands of government employees have been forced to get out of the Federal Work Force, either being fired or through a “deferred offer of resignation”, during the first month of Trump’s second mandate. There is no official figure available for total shots or dismissals, but The AP has counted Hundreds of thousands of workers who are being affected. Many work outside Washington.

Musk called his last request “a very basic pulse check” on Sunday.

“The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to work for the government are doing so little work that they are not reviewing their email at all!” Musk wrote in X. “In some cases, we believe that non -existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect payment checks.”

It has not provided evidence of such fraud. Separately, musk and triumph have falsely claimed In recent days, dozens of millions of people dead over 100 years receive payments from Social Security.

Meanwhile, thousands of other employees are preparing to leave the Federal Work Force next week, including Civil Test Workers in the Pentagon And all but a fraction of United States Agency for International Development Employees through cuts or leave.

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Republicado with permission from Associated Press.

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