Attorneys for federal workers said Monday in a lawsuit that billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk had violated the law with his weekend demand that employees explain their accomplishments or risk being fired.The updated lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in California and was provided to The Associated Press, is trying to block mass layoffs pursued by Musk and President Donald Trump, including any connected to the email distributed by the Office of Personnel Management on Saturday. The office, which functions as a human resources agency for the federal government, said employees needed to detail five things that they did last week by end of day on Monday.맥스카지노�No OPM rule, regulation, policy, or program has ever, in United States history, purported to require all federal workers to submit reports to OPM,맥스카지노� said the amended complaint, which was filed on behalf of unions, businesses veterans, and conservation groups. It called the threat of mass firings 맥스카지노�one of the most massive employment frauds in the history of this country.맥스카지노�Musk, who is leading the Republican president's efforts to overhaul and downsize the federal government, continued to threaten federal workers on Monday morning even as confusion spread through the administration and some top officials told employees not to comply.맥스카지노�Those who do not take this email seriously will soon be furthering their career elsewhere,맥스카지노� Musk posted early in the morning on X, his social media platform.He also escalated Trump's demand for employees to stop working remotely.맥스카지노�Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave,맥스카지노� Musk posted.The latest round of turmoil began over the weekend, when Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media website, that 맥스카지노�ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE."Musk followed up by saying 맥스카지노�all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.맥스카지노� He claimed that "failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.맥스카지노� The directive echoed how the billionaire entrepreneur has managed his own companies.The Office of Personnel Management sent out its own request afterwards.맥스카지노�Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager," the message said. However, it said nothing about the potential for employees to get fired for noncompliance. The deadline was listed as 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday.There was swift resistance from several key U.S. agencies led by the president맥스카지노�s loyalists 맥스카지노� including the FBI, State Department, Homeland Security and the Pentagon 맥스카지노� which instructed their employees over the weekend not to respond. Lawmakers in both parties said that Musk맥스카지노�s mandate may be illegal, while unions threatened to sue.One message on Sunday morning from the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., instructed its roughly 80,000 employees to comply. That was shortly after the acting general counsel, Sean Keveney, had instructed some not to. And by Sunday evening, agency leadership issued new instructions that employees should 맥스카지노�pause activities맥스카지노� related to the request until noon on Monday.맥스카지노�I맥스카지노�ll be candid with you. Having put in over 70 hours of work last week advancing Administration맥스카지노�s priorities, I was personally insulted to receive the below email,맥스카지노� Keveney said in an email viewed by The Associated Press that acknowledged a broad sense of 맥스카지노�uncertainty and stress맥스카지노� within the agency.Keveney laid out security concerns and pointed out some of the work done by the agency맥스카지노�s employees may be protected by attorney-client privilege: 맥스카지노�I have received no assurances that there are appropriate protections in place to safeguard responses to this email.맥스카지노�Democrats and even some Republicans, including Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, were critical of Musk맥스카지노�s ultimatum.맥스카지노�If I could say one thing to Elon Musk, it맥스카지노�s like, please put a dose of compassion in this,맥스카지노� Curtis, whose state has 33,000 federal employees, said on CBS맥스카지노� 맥스카지노�Face the Nation.맥스카지노� 맥스카지노�These are real people. These are real lives. These are mortgages. ... It맥스카지노�s a false narrative to say we have to cut and you have to be cruel to do it as well.맥스카지노�Newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel, an outspoken Trump ally, instructed employees to ignore Musk맥스카지노�s request, at least for now.맥스카지노�The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures,맥스카지노� Patel wrote in an email confirmed by the AP. 맥스카지노�When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses.맥스카지노�Ed Martin, interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sent his staff a message Sunday that may have caused more confusion.맥스카지노�Let me clarify: We will comply with this OPM request whether by replying or deciding not to reply,맥스카지노� Martin wrote in the email obtained by the AP, referring to the Office of Personnel Management.맥스카지노�Please make a good faith effort to reply and list your activities (or not, as you prefer), and I will, as I mentioned, have your back regarding any confusion,맥스카지노� Martin continued. 맥스카지노�We can do this.맥스카지노�Officials at the Departments of State, Defense and Homeland Security were more consistent.Tibor Nagy, acting undersecretary of state for management, told employees in an email that department leadership would respond on behalf of workers. 맥스카지노�No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their Department chain of command,맥스카지노� Nagy wrote in an email.Pentagon leadership instructed employees to 맥스카지노�pause맥스카지노� any response to Musk맥스카지노�s team, according to an email from Jules Hurst, the deputy undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.The Homeland Security Department, meanwhile, told employees that 맥스카지노�no reporting action from you is needed at this time맥스카지노� and that agency managers would respond, according to an email from R.D. Alles, deputy undersecretary for management.Thousands of government employees have already been forced out of the federal workforce 맥스카지노� either by being fired or through a 맥스카지노�deferred resignation맥스카지노� offer 맥스카지노� during the first month of Trump맥스카지노�s second term. There is no official figure available for the total firings or layoffs so far, but the Associated Press has tallied hundreds of thousands of workers who are being affected. Many work outside of Washington.Musk on Sunday called his latest request 맥스카지노�a very basic pulse check.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!맥스카지노� Musk wrote on X. 맥스카지노�In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks. In other words, there is outright fraud.맥스카지노�He has provided no evidence of such fraud. Separately, Musk and Trump have falsely claimed in recent days that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security payments.Meanwhile, thousands of other employees are preparing to leave the federal workforce this coming week, including probationary civilian workers at the Pentagon and all but a fraction of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers through cuts or leave.