Recently, the U.S. media disclosed an internal memorandum of the U.S. government, responsible for managing the U.S. federal government office space, has issued a notice to the previously dismissed employees of the "Ministry of Government Efficiency" simplified the period of federal government agencies, asking it to decide before October 6 whether to accept return to the job.
Layoffs "buyout" salary compensation + re-employment = 7 months paid leave
Associated Press on Thursday that this was equivalent to giving the group of dismissed employees up to seven months of paid leave to decide whether to return to work.
In fact, the seven-month paid leave was not initially planned by the General Administration, but because of the “Ministry of Government Efficiency”’s cutting-edge plan. Employees who agreed to accept the cutting-edge can get about eight months of pay compensation. But because of the current latest personnel arrangements of the General Administration, if the dismissed employees agreed to return to work, it is in fact equivalent to a seven-month paid leave.
The General Services Administration of the United States (GSA) was founded in the 1940s to centrally manage thousands of federal government offices. The agency's need to rehire laid-off employees is exactly the same as the recent return-to-work moves of several other federal agencies.
Last month, the IRS said it would allow some of the employees who accepted the resignation agreement to remain.The U.S. Department of Labor has also recalled some of the employees who accepted the purchase plan, and the National Park Administration has also resumed positions for some of the employees who have been dismissed.
Confusion caused by dismissal led to breach of land use contract
In addition, during this period, the office space of a series of U.S. government agencies managed by the General Services Administration of the United States had to continue to pay for the failure of some land use contracts or expired lease contracts that originally needed to be terminated due to a large number of shortages and confusion caused by dismissal, and this part of the expenses that should not have been incurred was passed on to taxpayers.
A U.S. official revealed that because of the U.S. General Administration's staff turmoil and chaos, the government failed to withdraw 131 leases in time after the expiration, and the tenants could not transfer the lease to other tenants, resulting in high default costs. A former U.S. General Administration real estate official believes that the agency is currently broken and that there is not enough people needed to perform its basic functions.
So far, the U.S. General Administration hasn’t officially provided any details of its recall of employees, nor has it provided any explanation of the cost overhead incurred by the dismissal of employees.
Background information: “Ministry of Government Efficiency” and federal government cuts
On January 20, President Trump signed an executive decree on the day of his oath to set up a advisory committee called the “Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” to initiate major reforms in the federal government. Only hours later, one of the leaders of the committee, Musk, posted on the social platform X announcing that “Ministry of Government Efficiency” began operating immediately after its establishment.
△ On March 9, Musk, the then head of the "Department of Government Efficiency", dressed in the abbreviation of "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE).
Eight days later, on January 28th, an email sent by the Office of Personnel Management in charge of human resources of the U.S. government to U.S. federal government staff showed that the U.S. government would provide about eight months' salary compensation to all federal government employees who voluntarily leave, but the departing employees need to make a decision to leave before February 6th this year. According to the email, if you resign according to the plan, the salary and benefits of the parties will last until September 30th, and a reduction and exemption of work arrangements during this period will be provided.
△ On May 30th, Musk and US President Trump were at the White House press conference. On the same day, Trump held a farewell ceremony for Musk's departure from the "Government Efficiency Department".
Until the end of May, Musk announced his resignation from the “Ministry of Government Efficiency” job and subsequently broke up publicly with Trump over the “big and beautiful” bill. During Musk’s leadership of the “Ministry of Government Efficiency” job, his radical cuts and budget cuts attracted widespread criticism.
Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Permanent Panel of Inquiry (PSI) released a survey report in late July that said that the U.S. entrepreneur Musk pushed for the creation of the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) in six months, not only failed to savings in spending, but instead caused huge “waste” and “waste” more than $21 billion in fiscal funds.
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