OPM Orders Federal DEI Employees Be Placed on Leave by Wednesday

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OPM Orders Federal DEI Employees Be Placed on Leave by Wednesday

Elizabeth Weibel 21 Jan 2025

The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a memo ordering all federal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) employees to be placed on paid leave by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday as the offices and programs start to close down.

In a post on X, Ed O’Keefe, a senior White House and political correspondent with CBS News, revealed that the U.S. OPM had issued a memo addressed to the heads and acting heads of departments and agencies within the government that each agency and department head should “take prompt actions regarding the offices and agency sub-units focusing exclusively on DEIA initiatives and programs.”

Agency heads were directed to “send an agency-wide notice to employees informing them of the closure and asking employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language” and to “send a notification to all employees of DEIA offices that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to lose/end all DEIA initiatives.”

The agency heads were also directed to “take down all outward facing media” such as websites and social media accounts.

Agency heads are also directed to “withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, materials, and equity plans issued by the agency,” and to “cancel any DEIA-related trainings, and terminate any DEIA-related contractors.”

Agency heads were directed to make these steps “no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, January 22, 2025,” according to the memo.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/21/opm-orders-federal-dei-employees-placed-leave-wednesday-offices-closed/

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[IsailedawayfromFR]

Except on the 'paid leave'.

If one does not have a job, why pay anything?

Let them maneuver to find an open job in another department and get their ass to working for pay.

I assume the hiring freeze implemented does not pertain to transfers from other federal agencies.

BTW, has anyone seen an EO about shutting down unions for federal employees?  Is this planted in law or did we just let this happen?

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https://rumble.com/v6c100m-has-anyone-checked-in-on-the-federal-workers-that-have-been-working-remotel.html

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Isailed commented:
"Except on the 'paid leave'.
If one does not have a job, why pay anything?"

There's a VERY good reason for this.
Permit me to explain.

Consider the physician's credo "first, do no harm".

So long as these DEI people were "at their desks", they WERE "doing harm" to America.

The first order of business for Mr. Trump is to STOP that harm-doing.

That means, even if the path doesn't yet exist to terminate them, they can at least be sent home where they can do no more damage.

Yes, they're being paid.
For now.
But again...
The damage they were previously doing to the nation... has been halted.

Kabish?

Re reply 3 about "checking on the remote workers"...
That's easy.

Require them to turn in government property, such as computers, phones, etc.

TURN OFF their access to the office servers.

DIGITALLY LOCK THEM OUT of the office.

Again... stop the harm-doing.
That's job 1 ...