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.
And I’m sitting here in a third world “shithole” country, looking at all this and shaking my head.
Which country? I live in Canada and have had angry Americans explain that we live in a socialist hellhole with no rights and a poor quality of life.
Which was an interesting take since Ive lived in both countries and my life here is way the fuck better than it was down there.
They live in a delusion down there.
Can also confirm. I lived in the US for ~25 years before moving, Canada is so much better. Though I do think we could be even more of a “socialist hellhole” up here
There’s plenty of dumbass Canadians who spout the same lies.
Yeah Ive seen Albertans.
Well, at least Germany has currywurst and alcohol at the dollar store.