On Monday, the Federal Personnel Management Office undermines a threat from Elon Musk that government workers who fail to submit a list of their recent achievements will face a forcibly “resignation”.

On Monday, OPM has told senior government human resources employees that “employee responses to the OPM email” claimed the “voluntary” workplace’s “voluntary” list, according to an internal email sent by the head of human resources affiliated with the Ministry of Justice, which was obtained by NBC News.

The email said: “OPM also explained that the failure to respond to the email is not equivalent to resignation,” the email said.

The update came hours after the news erupted about a recent amendment suit This noticed the last Musk threat.

The new deposit in San Francisco Federal Court Amid confusion and controversy about whether federal employees should respond to an email on Saturday from OPM, demanding these lists by Monday night.

Some major departments, including the Pentagon, requested their employees to stop responding to the OPM request. Others, including the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services and its centers for medical care and medical services services, requested their workers to comply.

Musk was assigned by the president Donald Trump With cutting on the federal government – and the number of federal workers. the Timing The Executive Director was called “Doug”, which symbolizes the Ministry of Government efficiency.

The lawsuit, which was modified on Sunday, was filed for the first time on Wednesday by a group of unions representing federal workers against OPM and Acting OPM director Charles Isle.

The lawsuit requires the judge to advise OPM to end “tens of thousands of federal employees in violating the Federal Constitutional and Legal Law.

OPM commanded February 13 to federal agencies “throughout the government to get rid of the effectiveness of the monitoring staff, by ending tens of thousands of federal employees”, noticed the lawsuit

The lawsuit was modified after OPM was implemented in its email “A new mandatory reports program for all federal employees, noting the complaint.

Email, from a new OPM email address, the address, “What did you do last week?”

“The body of the email mentioned: Please respond to this email with about 5 bullets for what you accomplished last week and your manager,” the email said. “The deadline is this Monday at 11:59 EST.”

Before Saturday, federal workers were not asked to file any reports of their work to OPM, noting the lawsuit.

Musk wrote in a post on Saturday on its social media site X, “In accordance with the instructions of President @realdonaldtrum, all federal employees will soon receive an email asking to understand what they did last week.”

“The failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk added in that tweet.

The threat of musk was condemned by Evere Kelly, President The American Federation of Government EmployeesOne of the unions to prosecute OPM.

“Once again, Elon Musk and Trump’s administration showed their complete contempt for federal employees and critical services they provided to the American people,” Kelly said in a statement.

“It is a harsh and unlimited matter for hundreds of thousands of ancient warriors who wear their second costume in the civil service to force them to justify their job duties on the unprecedented billionaire, which has never performed one hour of the sincere public service in his life,” Kelly said.

The amended lawsuit says that before Saturday, “no notice has been published, in the federal registry or anywhere, in relation to any program, base, policy or regulation that requires all federal employees to submit a report on their work to OPM.”

OPM “did not comply with any procedural requirements … regarding this new program”, claiming the lawsuit.

The lawsuit, after I sent an email to federal workers on Saturday, noticed, “At least, some federal agencies, including the FBI, began informing its employees not to respond to the sudden OPM request.”

In addition to the FBI, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Intelligence Agencies, its employees ordered not to respond immediately to the OPM mail.

However, the Ministry of Transport asked the employees to respond, according to an e -mail message obtained by NBC News on Monday.

“Please also make sure to exclude video information, links and attachments,” the email says.

Later on Monday, a judge set a hearing on Thursday afternoon at the request of unions to obtain a temporary restriction that blocks collective ends.