Federal contract oversight employees contemplate resignation offer, as agency faces layoffs and mission realignment

Labor Department employees who enforce equal opportunity requirements for federal contractors had until 6 p.m. Monday to decide whether to take an offer to leave federal service, as their agency faces the possibility of almost total elimination with remaining staff being directed to unwind their past work. 

Workers at the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, as well as the International Labor Affairs Bureau, Women’s Bureau and Office of Public Affairs, received an email late on April 4 that they were eligible for a second round of the deferred resignation program. Under the initiative, DOL employees can keep their pay and benefits through Sept. 30 if they resign by April 14. 

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