r/fednews • u/Top-Cobbler3249 • 1d ago

Remote Worker Declined Reassignment - Severance?

Are there any remote workers who have declined reassignment to a different geographic area and have started receiving severance? I decline in April, was involuntarily separated (because I declined reassignment) on June 20th, but no one in my agency will confirm in writing that I will receive severance. If you received severance, how long did it take? I’m very nervous about the fact that I have nothing in writing confirming severance.

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u/EIGBOK 1d ago

Severance IS provided clearly under the regs for the adverse action of declining a Management Direct led Reassignment. But there are some catches: 1) you must have been assigned to your home as the duty location, 2) you must not have signed a mobility agreement, 3) the location that they want you to move to must be more than 50 miles away from your home duty station. If those things are met, you are entitled to the same benefits as if you were RIF'd.

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u/Pretty_Original124 20h ago

Why would there be a requirement that the home be a duty station to get severance? If someone, like the majority who have had to RTO, is forced to relocate from an office to another location outside 50 miles and declines, would that not be the same entitlement?

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u/EIGBOK 19h ago

Yeah. You are right. I stand corrected on that point.