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작성일작성일: 2025-05-11 19:58Agencies utilizing lump-sum payments, early retirement program to cut federal employees
March 13 is deadline to submit strategies for massive layoffs
Workers would receive buyout payment of as much as $25,000
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Buyout program less vulnerable to legal challenge
By Alexandra Alper, Tim Reid, Marisa Taylor and Nathan Layne
March 11 (Reuters) - Multiple federal government firms are turning to early retirement programs to reduce headcount as they scramble to meet President Donald Trump's Thursday due date for them to submit plans for a second round of mass layoffs.
The Office of Personnel Management, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services, including its Food and Drug Administration, are amongst the agencies which have actually provided lump-sum payments of up to $25,000 before tax to workers who consent to leave their jobs.
The buyout uses, integrated with another program that eases eligibility requirements for early retirement, are being accepted as a lower-friction method to help meet the Thursday due date, personnel experts at numerous federal agencies told Reuters.
The Trump administration has actually been coming to grips with myriad suits after it fired countless probationary employees in a very first wave of mass layoffs and took apart entire departments like USAID, the U.S. humanitarian help company, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which safeguards Americans versus deceitful lenders.
All U.S. government firms have actually been ordered to come up with massive layoff plans by Thursday as part of Trump's unmatched campaign to overhaul the government. One of his top advisers, the tech billionaire Elon Musk, is leading that effort with his so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
The General Services Administration, which handles the government's property portfolio, is also seeking approval to provide the buyout payments to employees, according to an e-mail sent by its acting head to staff on Monday and seen by Reuters. The Securities and Exchange Commission has actually currently provided benefits of approximately $50,000, Reuters reported.
Human resource and public governance professionals said the appeal of the buyout program, called voluntary separation reward payments, is that it is voluntary and less vulnerable to legal difficulties. It likewise requires workers who have actually accepted the deal to pay back the cash if they take another federal government task within five years.
"If your technique is to get as many individuals out the door willingly, that reduces the threat of court orders and opposition to you in the long run," stated Don Moynihan, a public policy professor at the University of Michigan.
OPM STILL WAITING FOR PLANS
Only a number of firms have actually telegraphed through media leaks how many employees they prepare to cut in the 2nd phase of layoffs. They include the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is aiming to cut more than 80,000 employees, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is planning to cut 1,029 staff.
Despite the looming deadline, no firm has actually yet sent its job-cutting strategy to OPM, the government's human resources department that is collecting the information, a person familiar with the matter informed Reuters. OPM decreased to comment.
OPM itself has actually provided lump-sum payments to some 650 OPM staff members, according to another person with understanding of the matter. Employees were given till March 12 to respond.
At the General Services Administration, employees were on Monday that OPM had actually greenlit a plan to offer an early retirement program to all qualified staff members.
"I encourage each of you to consider your options as we move on," GSA Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian composed in an email seen by Reuters. "The brand-new GSA will be slimmer, more effective and laser-focused on effectiveness and high-value results."
On March 10, the HR department of the Fda sent out an e-mail to all its 19,000 staff members announcing a Friday, March 14, due date to opt into a VSIP. Those who accept would need to retire by April 19.
"There will be no extensions," specifies the email, examined by Reuters and signed by Tania Tse, director of the FDA's Office of Human Capital Management.
Late on Monday, HHS sweetened its previous VSIP deal by adding that workers accepting it would get 2 months of full pay in addition to the reward, according to a copy of the e-mail seen by Reuters.
Steve Lenkart, executive director of the National Federation of Federal Employees, a union which represents 110,000 federal government employees, said the Trump administration was using "a legitimate program to additional damage the abilities of firms to complete their objective."
OPM decreased to react to Lenkart's remarks. (Reporting by Alexandra Alper, Tim Reid, Marisa Taylor and Nathan Layne; Editing by Ross Colvin and Daniel Wallis)