Friday, the Department of Education placed a certain number of employees in its offices on administrative leave, which is part of a wave of what staff members and DIZ union representatives in dozens of suspensions to the ‘Agency in the purge of diversity efforts of the Trump administration.
In the letters obtained by the New York Times, the ministry informed the employees concerned that they would lose access to their email accounts, but would continue to receive a salary for an indefinite period.
The ministry cited the advice of the staff management office, which had ordered agencies to submit plans for the loss of personnel associated with diversity, actions and inclusion efforts by the end of the day.
Brittany Holder, spokesperson for the American Government Employees, said the union had estimated that at least 50 employees in the department had been suspended.
The range of people affected managed several of those who had been put on leave to conclude that they had been trapped in an effort on the level of the government to eliminate diversity initiatives, despite what they described Like a little more than superficial contacts with mentors offering general coaching on the inclusiveness of the workplace.
This decision was an early indication that Trump officials had started to seek to eliminate all Dei’s efforts that would have been made “disguised” after already transferring shutter offices explicitly concentrated on these efforts earlier in the week. He then came that dozens of agencies ran to comply with a prescription made by President Trump on his first day of office by ordering them to dismantle the diversity offices and withdraw the staff affiliated to them.
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