Some IRS employees who take OMS offering “Exposed resignation” told of continuing to work until May 15

On February 6, 2025By Littum

Some IRS employees who accepted the Office of Personal Management’s “Deferred resignation” offers are now told to remain on the job through May 15 because the agency has considered their work as “significant” for this year’s tax report season.

OM has given all federal employees until the end of the day on February 6 to accept his offer.

OM told most federal employees that if they accept this offer, they would be put on paid administrative leave no later than the end of the financial year 2025.

In follow-up messages, OM has told employees that if they accept the offer, they would be able to find another job or go on holiday and still receive up to eight months’ salary from their previous federal position.

“I want the agreement that OM offered,” an IRS treatment center told Federal News Network. “If I can’t have that deal, I assume it will be four months (paid leave). But my question now is, come on May 15, is it even a viable opportunity? “

The employee who asked to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation said she was already sending an e -mail to the message to accept her offer to be put on paid administrative leave. But she was told by her district manager on Tuesday that she should continue to work in the coming months.

More broadly, federal employees say they are increasingly skeptical of OPK’s offer as new details have come.

OPK Shared one Contract template with agency executives TuesdayIt says federal employees accepting that the agreement agrees to stay on the job through February 28 and would be put on paid administrative leave from March 1.

OM, however, told federal employees about his Often asked question page That they should not work in the deferred resignation.

“I am expected to work on my government job in the deferred resignation?” is the first question on the FAQ page. OPT SAVED THAT THE ANSWER IS “NO.”

The contract cabinet also says that OMB’s postponed severance offers cannot be lifted, “except after (the agency’s manager). . ”

OPT’s FAQ page also indicates that its offerings are available to all federal employees full time “except for military staff in the armed forces, employees of the US postal service, those in positions related to immigration enforcement and national security, those in positions related to The public security and those in other positions specifically excluded by your employment agency. “

Doreen Greenwald, National President of the National Treasury Employee Association, called this latest development a “clear case of bait-and-switch” when federal employees were initially told that they would be put on paid administrative leave through September 30.

“It proves that the conditions for OM’s so -called offer are unreliable and cannot trust,” Greenwald said.

“However, we welcome the admission that the IRS employees are crucial to the mission of the agency,” she added. “By demanding that IRS employees must remain on the job longer than promised, the administration proves what NTEU has said all the time: IRS employees are important and without the jobs that the US people are dependent on done. In the case of the IRS, it is answering the taxpayer’s questions during the archiving season, the treatment of tax returns and the issuance of reimbursement. But this applies to federal staff in the front line across the government who protect public health, promote economic growth and secure the nation. If their jobs arbitrarily removed these services are at risk. “

Top Democrats about the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in one Letter to OPK’s functioning leadershipcalled his offer “legally questionable” and “intentionally misleading.”

“At best, there is questionable legal authority for the administration to offer this type of program to federal workers, and that is not considered in the legislation on appropriations,” the legislators wrote. “It must be lifted right away.”

OPTS MCLAURINE PINOVER told Federal News Network in a statement on Tuesday that union leaders and politicians asking federal workers to reject this offer, “Do them a serious bear service.”

“This is a rare, generous option – one that was thoroughly monitored and intentionally designed to support employees through restructuring. Instead of spreading incorrect information and using workers as political peasants, they must ensure that federal employees have facts and freedom to make the best decision for themselves and their families, ”Pinover said.