Musk Order to Federal Workers Dubbed Illegal, ‘Amateurish’ (1)

The Trump administration’s weekend demand that federal workers describe their job accomplishments or face termination raises legal questions about establishing new evaluation metrics by email and threatening employees for noncompliance, as well as practical concerns about what the effort will accomplish.

Federal employees across government agencies received an email Saturday asking for five bullet points of what they “accomplished last week” by Monday at 11:59 p.m. Elon Musk, who’s led the administration’s campaign to slash federal jobs, wrote Saturday on his social media platform X that failure to respond would be “taken as a resignation.”

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