The layoffs on US General Services Administration (GSA) began on Wednesday, according to three people familiar with the subject.
GSA supervises most government contracts, manages federal properties and supervises various basic federal government functions. The Division of Technological Transformation Services is responsible for Fedramp, which defines cyber security standards for government contractors, and login.gov, that ordinary citizens use to access their social insurance extracts online.
Demissions affect employees in probationary period – those employees by the government for under one or two years – who are being called individually and pressured to resign or face the possibility of being placed on leave and then dismissed, said two of the three people. Two of the sources said more than 100 people were affected.
In a statement, GSA has said that “since the beginning of this government, GSA’s leadership has been committed to supporting government initiatives to properly sized the federal labor force” and that the agency “remains committed to ensuring a respectful process and worthy for the people of our agency during this transformation. ”
Together with the Personnel Administration Office (OPM), GSA was one of the first agencies targeted by the ELON MUSK technology billionaire, which was appointed by President Donald Trump to supervise the so -called department of government efficiency, which aims to dramatically reduce the Size of the federal workforce.
Trump government officials previously indicated that employees in the probative period are the first in line for cuts.
