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.
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.
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.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Price gouge them then undermine their work from within.
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.
I like yours better.