Musk’s Demand That Federal Workers Justify Their Jobs Is ‘Plainly Unlawful,’ Union Says
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A federal union leader told the administration to retract its insulting "what did you do last week?" email, saying it violates the law and wastes everybody's time.
The Trump administration’s email to federal employees demanding that they explain what they did at work last week is “plainly unlawful” and should be retracted, a federal union said Sunday.
In a letter to the Office of Personnel Management, Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the email “fails to cite any legal authority” for its demand, and violates laws delegating management authority to federal agency leaders.
“We believe that employees have no obligation to respond to this plainly unlawful email absent other lawful direction,” wrote Kelley, whose union represents 800,000 workers. “I am also requesting that OPM rescind the email and apologize to all federal employees.”
He went on to say the email left workers feeling “undervalued and intimidated.”
The email ― and a post on X promoting it from Elon Musk, head of President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency ― sparked outrage across the federal workforce over the weekend. It ordered recipients to “reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.”
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