MIAMI (AP) — Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.
“Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”
Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months. He said the sudden reversal of the downsizing reflects how Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had gone too far, too fast.
What a shit article. The courts ruled that the hundreds of employees that were placed on admin leave pending termination for working there less than a year were fired illegally. They cannot fire them. Since they are still on admin leave they have to come back.
What they failed to mention is that all of the employees who were put on admin leave pending termination, who then took the “fork” offer do not get to come back because they “quit.”
The GSA was and is DOGE central and is completely broken right now.
Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation
Saved Billions there, right?
And as another commenter said: the full story is even worse. Add to that that these guys will have a LOT of extra work to get their workplace in order when they get back.
And the best ones said fuck it, I’m going elsewhere.
Well done, DOGE
As per the Dead Sea Effect, the people who are coming back aren’t the ones they want.
the employees would be a fools, if they arnt asking for triple the pay, plus severance, and other stipulations incase they are refired again, which will happen.
What job market? If you were jobless all this time… They have them by the balls.
yeah some other person had a response like this and its like. um. and also trump wants them gone. the court only requires them to have the option of not having been fired.
paragraphs 2 and 5 in the article. The employees get to keep their contract buyouts, meaning they got half a year off at the same rate of pay.
I would get together with my entire department/ division, and respond as a group, and demand double pay, and lots of perks, to return. They either pay it, or somehow recruit and train the entire department.
Then unionize the entire Federal government.
Ahh yes, hire them back just in time for the government to shutdown because you’re such a a fucking idiot trump.
As long as it’s former employees. I’ve been expecting restaffing but with party loyalists.
This wasn’t that well thought out.
pretty hard to find COMPETENT loyalist, who know how things work in government.
I expected them to outsource or privatize.
Muppets.
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