2 days ago · WHEREAS, on or about January 28, 2025, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) circulated a memorandum to all Department of Defense employees (Fork in the Road Memo) offering them a voluntary deferred resignation option. The offer allows those employees who accept the offer by February 6, 2025, to retain all pay and benefits and …

The deferred resignation program offers employees who opt into the program an exemption from any return-to-work requirements and full pay and benefits regardless of workload, with the expectation that most employees will transition their duties and be placed on administrative leave for the bulk of the deferred resignation period.

Jan 28, 2025 · THE LAST DAY TO ACCEPT THE DEFERRED RESIGNATION PROGRAM IS FEBRUARY 6, 2025. Deferred resignation is available to all full-time federal employees except for military personnel of the armed forces, employees of the U.S. Postal Service, those in positions related to immigration enforcement and national security, and those in any other positions ...

1 day ago · The deferred resignation offer is the brainchild of the second Trump administration, which has ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week while directing government agencies ...

23 hours ago · Eligible federal workers must decide by 11:59 pm ET on Thursday whether to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer, which will allow them to leave their jobs but be paid ...

4 days ago · The memo, the first ever mass message to all roughly two million federal employees, offered a deferred resignation program for those unwilling to work under the second presidency of Donald Trump.

This program provides employees with an option to submit a deferred resignation letter with resignation effective on September 30, 2025. Deferred resignation exempts those employees who choose it from return-to-office requirements.

6 days ago · Feeling lost about what OPM’s deferred resignation means for federal workers? Here’s a break down of frequently asked questions released by the Trump administration.

3 days ago · Even memos sent out with the sample contract agreements summarize the deferred resignation offer as allowing eligible employees "to keep their government pay and benefits through September 30 ...

Jan 30, 2025 · These are important considerations for federal employees wondering if they should take the deferred resignation offer from OPM.