#reduction-in-force

#reduction-in-force

The White House's Office of Management and Budget upended normal shutdown planning this week when it issued a memorandum that instructed agencies to implement mass layoffs of their workforces if Congress fails to act before the deadline. Specifically, OMB said, agencies should prepare reduction-in-force notices for all employees whose work is funded directly through annual appropriations and does not align with President Trump's priorities.

"The US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has initiated what is known as a reduction in force (RIF) of a large number of its full-time federal employees,"