Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Back To Work They Go (At IRS)

[BobKamman]

From Bloomberg:

After a court ordered the Internal Revenue Service to rehire some 7,000 probationary workers, the employees were put on administrative leave – kept on the federal payroll, but not back at work.

Now it’s tax season and the bosses at the IRS need those erstwhile employees at their desks.

A notice to probationary employees — fired in February and reinstated in March — directed workers at the US tax collector to prepare to return to “full duty” by April 14 – one day before the country’s taxes are due, according to a copy viewed by Bloomberg News.

Between now and the agency’s most important date on the calendar, workers will be picking up new federal ID badges, powering up computers they turned in when the terminations hit in February and negotiating remote work arrangements in cities where the IRS doesn’t have office space.

For employees who don’t want to come back, the notice provides an out: workers can send an email to decline to return and resign from the agency.

But management said workers don’t need to give up jobs they took in the weeks since the Department of Government Efficiency first initiated the firings – in what could be a sign of the IRS’ manpower needs as tax returns roll in.“Please know that outside employment does not necessarily prevent you from returning to work,” the message read.

[IRonMaN]

"But management said workers don’t need to give up jobs they took in the weeks since"

Yeah, please come back to work so that we can fire you again in a few months.  My answer would be thanks, but no thanks.