this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2025
272 points (98.9% liked)

News

33419 readers
1795 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Facing a backlog of school discrimination cases, the U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work.

A Dec. 5 email obtained by USA TODAY shows the agency ordered a significant portion of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back later this month. In the "return to duty" directive, officials acknowledged they're facing a sizable caseload of civil rights complaints, and they underscored a need to utilize every resource at the government’s disposal to work through them.

The agency said the request applies to roughly 250 workers who've been on administrative leave for months amid legal challenges to their March firings. Julie Hartman, the Education Department's press secretary for legal affairs, stressed there still aren't any plans to fully rehire those workers permanently.

top 32 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Neon_Carnivore@lemmy.zip 149 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

DoE: "Our case load has become too much to handle. We need you to come back to work, but we don't want to actually give your jobs back."

The fired workers: "Go fuck yourself."

Hopefully.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No one with a better option is coming back and waiting tables is more lucrative than teaching. If anyone comes to the departments aid it will be the dregs.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 hours ago

Hey, they wouldn’t fire those guys in the first place.

[–] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 39 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Or better yet ...

Fired workers: ... sure, I'll come back on one condition ..... you give me four times the rate of pay I had before ... then when your stupid backlog is taken care of .... you can go fuck yourself.

... oh you don't want to pay four times the rate? .... no problem .... go fuck yourself.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

Alternatively, this is the civil rights division. These people likely care about civil rights and are pissed at the people who fired them. Lot of room for adversarial behavior as employees here

[–] Neon_Carnivore@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

I like yours better.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 23 points 11 hours ago

Probably a pretty rough spot for those employees. I imagine their pensions, health benefits and retirement stuff hinges on the definition of administrative leave etc.

If you were one of the employees on admin leave with a sick kid dependent on that healthcare plan... How big a risk would you make your kid take for you?

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

“We’re firing you, but you’re ‘ordered’ back to work”

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 hours ago

. . . for a short time. You don’t get your old job back.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 83 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ordered

Yeah, how about No.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 56 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

You don’t get to order people who don’t work for you.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 29 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You’d be surprised what a severance package can manipulate a laid off employee into doing.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 hours ago

They've been out since March.

Either their package was paid or why would you trust them to pay out of they haven't already.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

It says they are on administrative leave. So they do technically still work there is some quasi state. I assume the order would force them to come back or quit. Which is probably the point.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 hours ago

You do when you have the legitimate monopoly on violence.

Our entire government is run by rich idiot children.

[–] PK2@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Damn, they need a ton of people to rubber stamp "Denied, no discrimination here!" on things.

Cause you know that's all they want them to do.

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Why not stamp, "Approved"? What are they going to do, fire you?

The "Approved" stamp requisition was denied.

Reason: unnecessary surplus.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 hours ago

Ask for a year's salary upfront before you open a single case.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago

This admin has been on point with these headlines. They fire a shit ton and say...oh shit, we fucked up. Total incompetence

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 12 points 11 hours ago

If I was a furlough worker, I'd tell them to go to hell and I'd find me a job with a decent employer.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

"How to moron" <---this administration

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

1 Fire all the people in the Office of Civil Rights.

2 Deploy a bunch of ICE assholes to violate civil rights.

3 Receive record number of complaints

4 Rehire fired people.

5 Clear caseload.

6 Repeat step 1

7 ??????

8 Profit.

collapsed inline media

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Imagine a world where she botched and broke her neck

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Wow, the rare double whammy of fuck ups!
I hope the government loses by default on any cases that it can't respond to in a timely manner.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Damn her face looks like it was put on with a shotgun.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 minutes ago

"...shows the agency ordered a significant portion of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back..."

Sorry, I'm too busy telling you to FUCK OFF. Maybe I'll be free in about 6 months? Until then, FUCK OFF

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

HAHAHAHA Oh fuck! Jeeeeeezus fuckin’ christ in a sleeper hold, your stylist is high as fuck, McMahon. Please stop destroying the country’s education system and go back to untelevised day drinking.

As a side note, that video report is on par with Tik Tok (it’s actually not as good) and the corporate news holes have never seemed more pathetic.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

she was in trumps first term as the SBA head.