Federal employees have left wondering what will be affected by President Donald Trump's discounts on Dei Federal Programs on Thursday, including workers at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Chicago -based Railways.
This comes after Trump signed an executive order that ends the diversity, stock and inclusive programs, which he and the conservatives said was discriminatory and “undermining national unity.”
The letters of their transmission to federal agencies by the Personnel Management Office have set plans to lay off all Dei employees by Wednesday, and reports of employees and programs that were affected, along with plans to age the rest of the request, the employee management office by Thursday. A source told the Sun Times that an unknown number of employees had been asked to leave the Retail Retail Office at 844 N. Rush St. Wednesday afternoon.
The employees will be paid through their administrative vacation until the administration will be transferred because they are terminated on an unspecified date. It also identified a system for employees to report any person trying to hide the communications of Dei programs in contracts or other official writing.
“We are aware of the efforts of some of them in the government to hide these programs using an encrypted or inaccurate language,” says a message to the Chicago Railways Retirement Council. “If you are aware of a change … to hide the relationship between the contract and the Deia (diversity, shares, inclusion and accessibility) or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to Deiatruth@opm.gov within 10 days.”
The message continues to say that failure to report activity in a “timely” manner may lead to “negative consequences”, although the extent or details of these consequences were not known.
Nicole Cantilo – AFGE LOCAL 704, a union representing 1000 workers in the Environmental Protection Agency in the Middle West – said that there are many unknown people on Thursday. She did not know the number of the number in its union, although it said that the operation was largely a cohort, and could allow employees who have seniority to stay in other positions depending on the circumstances.
However, the Trump administration wants to place merit over all other measures, so the fate of these employees is still in the air.
“It is very difficult now to see exactly how it will play,” Cantilo told the Sun Times on Thursday. “There will be a lot of questions about what is Dia and not.”
Among the remaining questions is how the environmental justice programs of the Environmental Protection Agency, which bring federal resources, will be affected to the areas that reach the heaviest pollution, by the system. Federal employees were ordered in these programs to stop working on Wednesday, but they did not give the same separation of other employees.
Little Village and Pilsen are the neighborhoods in which the Environmental Protection Agency programs focused on soil cleaning and air control, among other measures. Cantello is concerned that important EPA publications, such as those that warn Chicago from lead in their drinking water, will be cleaned outside the Internet like Dei sites. As of Thursday afternoon, they remained.
“We are very concerned about this,” said Cantilo. “It will strongly affect how we deal with societies.”
But what was certain for her was the planning of the Trump team, as guidance for federal agencies to implement orders, just one day after the signing of the matter, when Cantilo said it sometimes took previous departments to do the same.
She also said that the measures that require government workers to report attempts to hide Dei's activity are unnecessary because employees are self -censorship. When Trump took similar measures during his first term, self -employee “employees”, offers that can be considered related to Dei, instead of trying to hide them.
Cantilo said: “He has never seen a level of development, planning and commitment that we have not seen before.” “This happened in the last Trump administration and was closed as soon as Trump said that. The federal workforce, in my opinion, will go abroad.”
