Lawsuit Challenges ‘Resignation’ Threat to Federal Workers

Federal workers are claiming in an amended lawsuit that they can’t be fired for not responding to an email from the Office of Personnel Management that requires them to submit a list of their recent accomplishments or face forced “resignation.”

Millions of federal workers reportedly received an email Saturday with the subject line, “What did you do last week?” It asked employees to list five items of what they accomplished in the past week and respond by 11:59 p.m. Monday. The email stated that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

The lawsuit was first filed Wednesday at U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. The plaintiffs include the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, other federal employee unions and groups such as Main Street Alliance, the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks and the Vote Vets Action Fund. It was amended Sunday.

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