Facing a backlog of school discrimination cases, the U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work.
A Dec. 5 email obtained by USA TODAY shows the agency ordered a significant portion of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back later this month. In the “return to duty” directive, officials acknowledged they’re facing a sizable caseload of civil rights complaints, and they underscored a need to utilize every resource at the government’s disposal to work through them.
The agency said the request applies to roughly 250 workers who’ve been on administrative leave for months amid legal challenges to their March firings. Julie Hartman, the Education Department’s press secretary for legal affairs, stressed there still aren’t any plans to fully rehire those workers permanently.
These people are fucking morons. Between the lawsuit losses and rebuilding the organization, they will have saved approximately negative bajillion dollars.
And I’m sitting here in a third world “shithole” country, looking at all this and shaking my head.
“…shows the agency ordered a significant portion of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back…”
Sorry, I’m too busy telling you to FUCK OFF. Maybe I’ll be free in about 6 months? Until then, FUCK OFF
anyone else think she tryna look like hillary clinton
Oh all the decisions… Why that one?
In all seriousness though, I suspect maybe it’s what all stupidly rich, old corrupt white women look like?
1 Fire all the people in the Office of Civil Rights.
2 Deploy a bunch of ICE assholes to violate civil rights.
3 Receive record number of complaints
4 Rehire fired people.
5 Clear caseload.
6 Repeat step 1
7 ???
8 Profit.
Our entire government is run by rich idiot children.
“What if the Federal Government was run like an HOA?”
Ask for a year’s salary upfront before you open a single case.
DoE: “Our case load has become too much to handle. We need you to come back to work, but we don’t want to actually give your jobs back.”
The fired workers: “Go fuck yourself.”
Hopefully.
Or better yet …
Fired workers: … sure, I’ll come back on one condition … you give me four times the rate of pay I had before … then when your stupid backlog is taken care of … you can go fuck yourself.
… oh you don’t want to pay four times the rate? … no problem … go fuck yourself.
Exactly.
Oh, you still need me?
I’m a contractor now, lets talk rates.
Trump solving the cost of living crisis, one department at a time! ATCs, now dept of education! The man’s a jeenius!
/s for the dim witted ones.
Alternatively, this is the civil rights division. These people likely care about civil rights and are pissed at the people who fired them. Lot of room for adversarial behavior as employees here
Yeah any slight hint of civil rights violation would be getting the full settlement in my case load.
I like yours better.
No one with a better option is coming back and waiting tables is more lucrative than teaching. If anyone comes to the departments aid it will be the dregs.
Just a quick note on your comment. The teacher salaries in Washington State, California, and New York are actually acceptable if you accrue enough time and education.
Hey, they wouldn’t fire those guys in the first place.
Probably a pretty rough spot for those employees. I imagine their pensions, health benefits and retirement stuff hinges on the definition of administrative leave etc.
If you were one of the employees on admin leave with a sick kid dependent on that healthcare plan… How big a risk would you make your kid take for you?
“We’re firing you, but you’re ‘ordered’ back to work”
. . . for a short time. You don’t get your old job back.
Ordered
Yeah, how about No.
You don’t get to order people who don’t work for you.
It says they are on administrative leave. So they do technically still work there is some quasi state. I assume the order would force them to come back or quit. Which is probably the point.
You’d be surprised what a severance package can manipulate a laid off employee into doing.
They’ve been out since March.
Either their package was paid or why would you trust them to pay out of they haven’t already.
You do when you have the legitimate monopoly on violence.
This admin has been on point with these headlines. They fire a shit ton and say…oh shit, we fucked up. Total incompetence
Damn, they need a ton of people to rubber stamp “Denied, no discrimination here!” on things.
Cause you know that’s all they want them to do.
Why not stamp, “Approved”? What are they going to do, fire you?
The “Approved” stamp requisition was denied.
Reason: unnecessary surplus.
If I was a furlough worker, I’d tell them to go to hell and I’d find me a job with a decent employer.
Or! Hear me out… Take the job (and pay) back, but become a hindrance until they fire you.
“How to moron” <—this administration
Imagine a world where she botched and broke her neck
Damn her face looks like it was put on with a shotgun.
