Federal workers on Feb. 23 sued the U.S. government over Elon Musk’s threatening workers with termination if they do not respond to a new, mass email instructing employees to list some tasks they’ve recently accomplished.
In an email titled “What did you do last week?” sent on Feb. 22, workers were told to reply with five bullet points listing what they accomplished over the past week.
“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk, who has been described as running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wrote on his social media platform X that day.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which sent the missive, failed to provide notice regarding any program, rule, policy, or regulation that requires all federal workers to provide a report regarding their recent work to OPM, the American Federation of Government Employees and a number of other groups said in an updated lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco….