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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.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're ORDERING me to come back to help you fight the people who are suing you for your egregious abuses?

I will return for quadruple the salary, and a 50% pension with 100% paid health care that starts immediately after I leave for ANY reason. I will have a 4 day work week, and I will do it from home. Any Zoom meetings require 24 hours notice.

I could think of about 100 more conditions, and if they violate ANY of them, or fire me for any reason, I quit immediately, and my pension rises to 100%, and it starts immediately.

No negotiation. Agree to EVERYTHING, or the answer is No.

And then when they agreed, I'd take the job, and then tank it so badly that they'd have to fire me, because keeping me would be more damaging than paying a lifetime salary and benefits.

The Secretary of Education and the MAGA government is determined to eliminate the Department of Education, so I'd have no problem with sabotaging the agency that they are determined to destroy anyway. I just won't destroy it in the ways they want me to.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Get all that in writing and then insist they pay you in CASH. DAILY. I would beyond doing anything on "trust."

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

I like the daily cash strategy. Maybe take the Chuck Berry/ Aretha Franklin strategy, and insist on it up front, BEFORE you perform. I have no faith that those criminals will honor their obligations. They are notoriously untrustworthy, so they must pay in advance.