[E-trademarks] [External Sender] Another wrinkle to the "buyout"--does the administration have the ability to pay the workers who resign?

Wed Jan 29 23:17:35 UTC 2025

How is it a “sham”?  The offer, as I understand it, is to guarantee an employee’s job until the end of the fiscal year, and the employee who accepts the offer does not have to comply with the “return to work” order.  If an employee’s remote working arrangement is protected by collective bargaining or some other reason particular to their agency, then they don’t need the offer.  But an employee who lives 1,000 miles from their work site, assuming that they would never have to return to work, can accept the offer and have eight months to find a different situation.

Many private employees are facing the same dilemma, and they aren’t getting a guaranteed 8 months to look for a new opportunity.

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Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] [External Sender] Another wrinkle to the "buyout"--does the administration have the ability to pay the workers who resign?

It's all a sham.

On Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:05:54 PM EST, Ronni Jillions via E-trademarks <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com<mailto:e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>> wrote:

This is from someone in the PTO examining corps: The offer was not to put people on administrative leave.  If they resign, they still have to work until the end of the FY.  If they don’t, they can be fired.  No lump sum payout or package was offered.

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Subject: [External Sender][E-trademarks] Another wrinkle to the "buyout"--does the administration have the ability to pay the workers who resign?

Sen. Kaine on the Senate floor claimed "The President has no authority to make that offer. There's no budget line item to pay people who are not showing up for work...If you accept that offer and resign, he'll stiff you..."

Obviously there’s politics at play here, but this does raise the question: can the administration simply put everyone on paid administrative leave if they offer their resignation?  If not, what happens to the PTO workers who resign?  Are they just out of a job (and with no “severance” pay)?

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