The U.S. Office of Personnel Management issued a memo on Tuesday instructing all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employees to be put on paid leave as agencies work to dismantle DEI initiatives. The OPM is an independent agency of the federal government that manages the federal civil service.
The memo directs agencies to place DEI employees on paid leave by 5 p.m. on Jan. 22 and to remove all websites and social media accounts associated with DEI initiatives by the same time.
Federal agencies are also urged to cancel all DEI-related trainings and compile a list of federal DEI offices and workers as of Nov. 5, 2024. The order also requires agencies to submit a plan for executing a “reduction-in-force action” against those federal workers….