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March 1 (UPI) — Federal workers acquired a second electronic mail from the U.S. Workplace of Personnel Administration asking them to listing their accomplishments prior to now week.

Late Friday evening, they have been advised to listing 5 bullet factors about what they did.

The message additionally mentioned: “Going ahead, please full the above job every week by Mondays at 11:59pm ET.”

This time, the e-mail mentioned: “Please don’t ship hyperlinks, attachments, or any categorized/delicate data. If all your actions are categorized or delicate, please write ‘All of my actions are delicate.'”

Roughly 1 million of the two.25 million federal employees responded to the primary electronic mail.

“I am simply form of numb to it by now,” an worker of the Nationwide Institutes of Well being who was granted anonymity due to fears of retaliation advised Politico. “It has been like one lengthy funeral and it by no means lets up.”

A coalition of labor unions and civic organizations in a lawsuit allege that the primary “What did you do final week?” electronic mail, despatched final weekend, violates federal legislation.

U.S. District Choose William Alsup discovered that the Workplace of Personnel Administration doubtless violated the legislation by failing to adjust to discover and remark rulemaking in issuing memos. The choose additionally discovered companies improperly fired probationary workers. Alsup was appointed by President Invoice Clinton.

In a privateness evaluation first printed Feb. 5 in response to the lawsuit difficult the Trump administration’s implementation of the e-mail system, OPM mentioned responding to any mass electronic mail was “explicitly voluntary.”

On Friday, OPM up to date its privateness evaluation to say federal workers might decline to reply, however that “the results for failure to offer the requested data will range relying on the actual electronic mail at situation.”

Elon Musk, who oversees the Division of Authorities Effectivity, mentioned they’re “pulse test” because the Trump administration seeks to dismiss hundreds of employees.

Musk, the world’s richest individual with an estimated web value of $359.4 billion, based on Forbes, mentioned employees face dismissal if they don’t reply.

The typical federal employee wage was about $106,000 in 2024, PBS Newshour reported.

Trump weighed in on the matter at a press convention on Wednesday.

“You’ve got bought lots of people who haven’t responded,” he mentioned. “So we’re attempting to determine, do they exist, who’re they, and it is doable that lots of people can be truly fired.”

Since Trump took workplace on Jan. 20, an unclosed variety of probationary workers have been dismissed and about 75,000 veteran employees have accepted buyouts.

About 220,000 federal workers had lower than a 12 months on the job as of March 2024, based on authorities knowledge maintained by OPM. A few of these positions have been exempted, and others who have been terminated have since had the discover rescinded.

Civil service employees, versus political ones, have sure job protections.