U.S. payroll growth totals 177,000 in April, topping expectations

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29. There are several problems with that. First, staff on admin leave still get paid so they haven't actually been fired.

The point of getting rid of these people is to save money so why would they continue paying them to do nothing? (I know that is happening with some of the "fired" workers, but it in no way accounts for most of workers who have been fired.

Second, regulations only permit administrative leave for 10 work days per year.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/17/2024-29139/administrative-leave-investigative-leave-and-notice-leave#:~:text=Under%20section%206329a(b)(,in%20any%20given%20calendar%20year.

Administrative leave is permitted—at an agency's discretion but subject to statutory and regulatory requirements—when an agency determines that no other paid leave is available under other law. Under section 6329a(b)(1), an agency “may place” an employee on administrative leave for no more than 10 total workdays in any given calendar year.

It appears this is being ignored.

This CNN article from late March had identified over 120,000 workers laid off and in their methodologies they explicitly state:

https://www.cnn.com/politics/tracking-federal-workforce-firings-dg

For this project, CNN is not tracking federal workers who are reinstated after their initial job impacts and is not tracking those placed on administrative leave or those who take voluntary buyouts.

So that is 120,000 jobs lost without including anyone placed on admin leave.

I trust BLS. I DO NOT trust OMB or OPM at this point. I am very skeptical that they are being honest with the public in terms of what is happening/has happened with Federal workers being terminated.