Federal employee unions and the Trump administration are in a fierce battle over the government's buyout offer, with employees facing a Feb. 6 deadline to accept an offer some say is illegal.

OPM had given some 2 million federal workers unwilling to comply with a return-to-office mandate a Feb. 6 deadline to accept about eight months of pay and benefits in exchange for their resignations.

Trump's proposed buyout plan for federal workers in limbo 02:32. Boston — A federal judge in Boston on Monday heard arguments over whether to extend a nationwide pause in the Trump ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered the buyouts on Jan. 28 to more than 2 million federal workers after President Trump signed an executive order requiring agencies “to terminate ...

Federal workers who accept that offer by Feb. 6 “will retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and will be exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements until September ...

Feb. 6 marked the deadline for federal workers to accept the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Trump Administration's offer of a buyout. These buyouts, or the option of "deferred ...

Will Trump's federal worker buyouts affect the IRS? How will the 2025 tax season be affected? As of Wednesday, approximately 40,000 federal employees accepted the buyout offer, which is about 2% ...

McLaurine Pinover, a spokesperson for the OPM, defended the buyouts. “Union leaders and politicians telling federal workers to reject this offer are doing them a serious disservice.

Trump administration officials say that more than 20,000 federal workers have accepted buyouts. That's still well below the White House's goal of 5 - 10% of federal employees taking the deal.

The White House’s plan to offer “deferred resignations” that pay departing federal employees their salary through Sept. 30 will likely run afoul of rules governing buyout payments.

Workers slam buyouts as short-sighted on Reddit. Declining the buyout guarantees no job security for federal workers, OPM's email said. "We will insist on excellence at every level—our ...