President Donald Trump warned that federal employees who fail to follow new guidance requiring individual productivity could lose their jobs.
The effort was led by Email SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who asked federal workers to send emails on Monday, detailing a summary of tasks they accomplished the previous week. I asked for it. Masks are heading towards the efficiency of newly created governments, aiming to reduce government waste and fraud.
“I thought it was great,” Trump told reporters for the initiative at the White House on Monday. “We have people who don't show up for work, so no one even knows if they'll work for the government, so by asking the question, “Please tell me what you did this week.” [Musk’s] They say, “Are you actually working?” If you don't answer, you're kind of semi-fire, or you'll be fired. Because there are not many people who do not have answers because they don't exist. ”
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President Donald Trump expressed support for Elon Musk's efforts to track productivity at the White House on Monday. (Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)
Musk released an email in a post on Saturday with X, warning that a failed reply is equivalent to a resignation.
“In line with @RealdonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will receive an email promptly requesting a request to understand what they did last week,” Musk wrote about X. It's there. “A failure to respond will be considered a resignation.”
Federal employees received an email from the Human Resources Office on Saturday and were instructed to provide a list of five things they had accomplished the previous week at 11:59pm on Monday.
The United States Federation of Government Employees, a labor union for federal workers, criticised the policy and said Trump and his administration once again demonstrated “completely sloppy” to federal employees.
“A federal employee is forced to justify this touch, privileged, unselected billionaire who has never performed an hour of honest public service in his life. It is cruel and rude to be done,” President Everett Kelly said in a statement Saturday.
The federation “challenges illegal termination of members and federal employees across the country,” Kelly said.
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Elon Musk announced plans to require federal employees to summarise productivity for the week, prompting a pushback from union groups. (AP News)
Meanwhile, several agencies have issued instructions to tell employees to ignore mask instruction.
For example, the Department of Defense issued a letter to civilians claiming to be autonomous in the Pentagon on Sunday, instructing employees to ignore mask requests to send work week details to the HR office.
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“The DOD official may have received an email from OPM requesting information,” wrote Darrin Selnick, who fulfills his duties as defence chief for personnel and preparation. “The Department of Defense is responsible for reviewing personnel performance and will follow its own procedures to carry out reviews.
“If necessary, the department will adjust the responses to emails received from OPM,” he writes. “For now, please pause your response to OPM emails entitled “What did you do last week?” ”
FBI Director Kash Patel also issued a similar order to staff, saying “the review will be conducted in accordance with the FBI procedures,” according to the Associated Press.
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Greg Wehner, Jennifer Griffin and Stephen Sorace of Fox News contributed to this report.
