
VA Tells Employees To Reply To Elon Musk's Ultimatum
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has advised employees to respond to the Office of Personnel Management’s insulting email to the federal workforce titled “What did you do last week?” “I am informing you that the email is valid,” Chris Syrek, the VA’s new chief of staff, told agency workers in a Sunday night message viewed by HuffPost. The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal union, has said the OPM email is “unlawful” as it circumvents agencies’ authority and doesn’t “comport with OPM’s own regulations and guidance.” A VA employee told HuffPost that many workers were outraged by the instructions from their own agency’s leadership to reply to the email and explain what they did last week. But since Trump’s inauguration, OPM has served as a nerve center for the administration’s attacks on the civil service — including the legally sketchy deferred resignation program known as “Fork in the Road.” Other federal agencies took a different tack from the VA when it came to Musk’s ultimatum, showing a willingness among some to resist OPM’s encroachment on their turf. Alles, the agency’s deputy undersecretary for management, told employees Sunday that “no reporting action from you is needed at this time,” according to an email viewed by HuffPost.
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