Elon Musk’s threat of resignation is not valid, says OPM

The Federal Office of Socava Management on Monday a threat of Elon Musk that government workers who do not present a list of their recent achievements will face a forced “resignation.”

OPM notified on Monday the main human resources officials of the government “that employees’ responses to the OPM email” demand the list of achievements in the workplace “is voluntary”, according to an internal email sent by the boss of human resources of the Department of Justice, which was obtained by NBC News.

“OPM also clarified that a non -response to the email does not equal a resignation,” said the email.

The update came hours after news about a newly modified lawsuit That noticed Musk’s recent threat.

The new presentation in Federal Court of San Francisco He arrived in the midst of confusion and controversy about whether federal employees must respond to an email on OPM Saturday that demands such lists on Monday night.

Some important departments, including the Pentagon, had told their employees to let the OPM demand. Others, including the Department of Health and Human Services and its centers for the Subsidiary of Services of Medicare and Medicaid, told their workers to fulfill.

The musk has been commissioned by the president Donald Trump with cutting the expenditure of the federal government and the number of federal workers. He Tesla The CEO called that effort “Dux”, which represents the government efficiency department.

The modified demand on Sunday was first presented by a group of unions representing federal workers against OPM and the interim director of OPM Charles Ezell.

The claim asks a judge to produce OPM to end “tens of thousands of federal employees in contravention of the Federal Constitutional and Legal Law.

OPM on February 13 ordered federal agencies “throughout the government that effectively eliminated the category of test employees, ending tens of thousands of mass federal employees,” the demand said.

The lawsuit was amended after OPM in its email implemented a “new mandatory report program for all federal employees, the complaint indicates.

The email, from a new OPM email address, had the title, “What did you do last week?”

“The email body declared: respond to this email with approximately 5 bullets of what he achieved last week and CC to his manager,” said email. “The deadline is this Monday at 11:59 est.”

Before Saturday, federal workers were not obliged to submit any report on their work to OPM, the demand indicates.

Musk in a publication on Saturday at his social media site X wrote: “According to the instructions of President @realdonaldtrump, all federal employees will receive an email that requested to understand what they did last week.”

“The lack of response will be taken as a resignation,” Musk added on that tweet.

Musk’s threat was condemned by Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government EmployeesOne of the unions that demand OPM.

“Once again, Elon Musk and Trump administration have demonstrated their total disdain for federal employees and critical services that provide the US people,” Kelley said in a statement.

“It is cruel and disrespectful to hundreds of thousands of veterans who carry their second uniform in the civil service that is forced to justify their labor duties to this billionaire out of touch, privileged and not chosen that he has never made a single hour of public service Honest in his life, “Kelley said.

The amended demand says that before Saturday, “no notice was published, in the Federal Registry or anywhere else, with respect to any program, rule, policy or regulation of OPM that requires that all federal employees provide a report on Your work to OPM “.

OPM “has not complied with any procedure requirement … regarding this new program,” says the demand.

And, the lawsuit pointed out, after OPM sent the explosion email to federal workers on Saturday, “at least some federal agencies, including the Federal Research Office, began to tell their employees that they do not respond to this surprise request of OPM “.

In addition to the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the State Department and the National Intelligence Agencies have ordered their employees not to respond immediately to the OPM email.

But the transport department has told employees to respond, according to an email obtained by NBC News on Monday.

“Also be sure to exclude information, links and classified attachments,” says email.

Later on Monday, a judge scheduled a hearing for Thursday afternoon on the request of the unions of a temporary restriction order that blocks the massive terminations.