The March 9 memorandum from Samantha Cutler, the department's director of workforce relations, evicted union officials from agency office space as of April 11, demanded union leaders turn in agency equipment including computers, printers and cellphones by March 26, and sharply restricted the amount of "official time" union leaders can spend on labor relations.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke walked into a big gathering of the National Petroleum Council on Monday already facing at least two government probes for his management of the department's workforce of 70,000 — but that didn't stop him from bashing his employees.
The reduction of the department's workforce reflects the challenge of filling senior positions when even right-leaning academics are reluctant to work for President Trump and DeVos's belief that the federal government should tread more lightly in U.S. schools.
A DCLG spokesman said: "The reality is senior civil servants account for less than 5% of the department's workforce, while over a quarter of our staff work across the country.
An internal government review in April concluded that the environment department's budget should be slashed from $460m in2013-142013-1461m in 2017-18, requiring toe loss of 670 jobs over this period – a quarter of the department's workforce.
Departments will maintain adequate records of workforce training, which will be provided upon request by the Office of the General Counsel, the University Privacy Officer, the Chief Information Security Officer, Internal Audit, Human Resources or other University official with a reasonable Stanford-related need for the information.
About 90percentt of the department's workforce -- 650,000 people -- will have to take 11 days of unpaid leave before the end of September, amounting to a 20percentt pay cut.
Here's the percentage of workers who are furloughed at 17 Cabinet-level departments, arranged by size of each department's workforce.
As many as 500 staff could go - a third of the department's workforce.
