FAA employees received email encouraging them to resign a day after DC plane crash: report
The Federal Aviation Administration sent employees — including air traffic controllers — a mass email encouraging them to resign and take a job in the “private sector” or travel to “dream destination” less than a day after the disastrous Washington, DC, plane crash, according to a report Thursday.
The agency’s Office of Personnel Management encouraged FAA employees to look for new jobs outside the government where they can be more productive in an email set just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday, according to The New York Times.
“We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so,” the email instructed. “The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.”
It then went on to explain that if workers quit, they could take a second job or travel while still on taxpayers’ payroll for months before leaving for good.
The message reiterated an offer sent by the FAA to workers earlier this week, the paper reported. Federal workers in other agencies also received the email.
FAA didn’t immediately return The Post’s request for comment Friday.
