Sign the “Deferred Resignation” contract at your peril. A law professor says you may be giving up some essential rights.

Federal workers across the nation face a life-altering decision this week — tender their resignations and be paid through Sept. 30. Or hold firm and face future rounds of belt-tightening and strict return to the office requirements.

The Trump administration issued an email blast on Jan. 28 giving most of the country’s 2.3 million eligible employees federal workers the option to resign with pay through Sept. 30. The deadline to decide on whether to accept the offer is Thursday.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined with 12 other attorneys general from across the country warning federal employees to be wary of the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” program,

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees must decide by February 6, 2025, whether to accept the " Fork in the Road" deferred resignation offer.

The Trump administration said on Sunday that federal employees involved in public safety positions, such as air traffic controllers, are exempt from a financial incentive to quit government jobs.

In the wake of the worst American air disaster in two decades, the understaffed and cash-strapped National Transportation Safety Board was scrambling to keep investigators from leaving after federal employees received an offer by the Trump administration to resign and be paid through September.

Feeling lost about what OPM’s deferred resignation means for federal workers? Here’s a break down of frequently asked questions released by the Trump administration.

Deferred resignation offers incited confusion and alarm for civil servants of various stripes, but it cut particularly deep for federally employed wildland firefighters.