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Federal agencies must eliminate DEI offices and positions within 60 days

The Office of Personnel Management recalled that its initial guidelines required agencies to submit written plans no later than Jan. 31, 2025, to make cuts. However, it detailed that workers should already receive notice of this downsizing.

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The Office of Personnel Management ordered federal agencies to begin laying off staff members working in positions related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, after placing them on paid leave earlier this week.

"In accordance with that order, each agency, department, or commission head shall take action to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and 'environmental justice' offices and positions within sixty days," the office said in a memo it posted on social media.

In that regard, the office recalled that OPM's initial guidance required agencies to submit written plans no later than Jan. 31, 2025, to execute a reduction-in-force (RIF) action with respect to employees working in a DEIA office. However, agencies can and should begin issuing RIF notices to employees in DEIA offices immediately.

President Donald Trump's order

The Office of Personnel Management memo comes just one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to eliminate all DEI programs in the federal government and also signed a separate provision stating that official government policy is to recognize only two genders: male and female.

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