“USAID employees around the world will be sent on administrative leave from Friday, February 7. The exception will be identified personnel who are responsible for the performance of “critical functions”, as well as the main management and specially defined programs.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
USAID employees around the world will be sent on administrative leave from Friday, February 7. The exception will be identified personnel who are responsible for the performance of “critical functions”, as well as the main management and specially defined programs.
Source: “European Truth” link to USAID site
Details: As informed at the Agency, on February 7, 2025, at 23.59, the Eastern European time all the hired USAID staff will go on administrative leave around the world.
The main staff, which is expected to continue to work, will be informed by the agency’s management by 15.00 Thursday, February 6.
For USAID staff, which is currently working outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the State Department, is currently preparing a plan according to all applicable requirements and law Provides termination of PSC and ISC contracts that will not be recognized as the main ones.
The agency will consider individual exceptions and extend the term of return on the basis of personal or family circumstances, mobility or security reasons or for other reasons.
For example, the agency will consider exceptions to the terms of the school semester of dependents, personal or family medical needs, pregnancy and other reasons.
Prehistory:
- In the administration of US President Donald Trump Ilon Musk, the efforts aimed at closing USAID, making it increasingly rigid. The agency’s employees on Monday, February 3 were ordered to stay at home.
- Meanwhile, USAID’s High Secretary Marco Rubio became the responsibility of the USAID manager.
- On February 4, Rubio stated that foreign assistance should promote the interests of the United States, not be charity, and assured that the Trump administration was not going to stop all international assistance.
- According to him, before the frost, the Trump administration could not know anything about some of the programs, and USAID “refused to tell something.”