The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planing to offer employees financial incentives in the form of buyouts and early retirement plans to leave the agency.
The EPA is reducing its workforce in preparation for budget cuts by the Trump administration, according to Fortune.com.
Acting Deputy Administrator Mike Flynn sent an internal memo on Thursday to all EPA employees stating he wants the buyout program finished by September 30, the end of fiscal 2017, according to the Government Executive. The memo did not mention how the program was expected to be carried out.
“Early outs and buy outs … can help us realign our workforce to meet changing mission requirements and move toward new models of work,” the memo said according to Fortune.com.
The buyout program has yet to be approved by the White House Office of Management and Budget, which must approve all employee early buyout programs.
Trump’s budget proposal calls for a 31 percent reduction in the EPA’s budget, as well as cutting the EPA’s workforce by 25 percent, over 3,200 employees. The EPA has offered buyouts to employees before, the latest in 2014.
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