The sources say that some employees of the Ministry of Education put on leave on the alleged diversity training program.

Dozens of Ministry of Education employees received messages when they closed working hours on Friday and put them on an administrative leave, according to a copy of one message obtained by ABC News.

Although no specific reason was given, some employees told ABC news that they believed that the only common thread among them was that they attended a voluntary training called the “Diversity Change Agency Training Program”.

The message states that the administrative leave notification is not for disciplinary purposes. Instead, it is issued under President Donald Trump’s executive order on diversity, fairness and integration (Dei) and “other guidelines” from the US Personnel Management Office, according to the message.

According to the message, employees will get full wages and benefits during the end of the administrative leave. They are not required to carry out tasks for work during this time, nor are they required to come to the office. The employees who were placed on the government email were also suspended when receiving messages. There is no specific time for the leave period, according to the message.

The messages caused madness throughout the department, where some employees were closed from their accounts and were forced to verify their own email addresses of the notice, according to Sheria Smith, President of the American Federation of Government Persons (AFGE) 252.

Smith told ABC News that more than 50 employees in “very diverse roles” within the administration received email notifications for their governmental email addresses or their email accounts after regular working hours during the weekend.

ABC News spoke with three employees from the Ministry of Education who received the messages and described their vacation as a “paid administrative hell” since Friday evening.

“It is very disturbing,” one of the department’s employees said for more than 20 years, working in Washington, DC, told ABC News. “I don’t get it. What is my crime? What did you do?”

Smith said that the positions of the Ministry of Education staff who were placed on the running leave, from the senior civil rights lawyer, to lawyers to defend the borrower for the journalists. She said she is afraid to send more messages in the coming days.

A lawyer working in the ministry in Washington, DC, said they were placed on a “dream job”. They said that the employee had two children and received a notification after they were put in bed on Friday night. The person said that Friday was harsh and that the news was a shock to receive it, but now they feel that they are “different levels” of sadness.

The employee told ABC News: “I felt a little waking up, knowing that I will not work,” the employee told ABC News.

The employee added: “But I just feel that there is a lot of information that I am trying to process, and with young children, it seems as if you were trying to balance a lot,” the employee added.

The messages came when the Trump administration cleans the policies and programs of the federal government. The president issued an executive order during his first week in his position calling for agencies to “fight” the DEI private sector programs.

Trump’s letter – including the threat for several months to close the Ministry of Education – create fear throughout the department, according to Samith.

“People took these jobs because they care about the mission,” Smith told ABC News. “Thus it completely affects us. You know, the thing that brought us to these jobs that we cannot do.”

The department employee worked with two young children in the department for more than four years, and comes from a family of teachers. The employee said that education is “the goal of the great equalizer”, and the Ministry of Education benefits everyone.

“I believe in the administration, adding:” I always wanted to work here. “

In a statement of ABC news, the Deputy Assistant Minister of Education told Maadi Pederman that the president was elected to the age of “unprecedented reform” that depends on merit and effective in the service of the interests of the American people.

“We are evaluating employees in line with the commitment to give priority to calm learning before the ideology of division in schools and put students’ results over special interests, “Pederman wrote.

ABC News arrived at the White House for comment.

Meanwhile, the three administration employees who spoke to ABC News said they were completely stumbling on the reason for issuing administrative vacation notifications. The administration employee who has contracting contracts in Washington also said that he is partially confusing, because during the first period of Trump, managers were evaluated to support Dei standards through the performance classification system in the department.

“We were expected to do Di,” the employee said. “This is Trump and [then-Education Secretary] Betsy Devos wanted us to do. They wanted to do that. They put it in [performance] Plans. We did not put it in our plans. And not only that, he is in the plan of each manager in the department, and not only people with administrative leave. “

“Every person in the Ministry of Education is the supervisor or the director now [DEI] The employee added in their performance plan – and this is programmed by the department.

Administrative vacation notifications may be linked to a two -day “training program for a variety”, which is a training led by the facilitator, according to the training document segments obtained by ABC News. The training took place for two days after March 2019, during the reign of Davos and during Trump’s first state, according to an email in February 2019 that ABC News obtained with the “Diversity Change Course”.

The training program aims to create specific action plans to “push diversity and integration” and increase creativity and innovation. The program also challenged employees to achieve greater results by defending the diversity of the workforce with the establishment and preservation of a comprehensive environment, according to the training document segments.

Another employee in the department, who obtained the 2019 training and working remotely from New York offices, described a “stranger” notice, especially since the 2019 training occurred during the term of the first president.

“The whole thing is strange,” the department employee told ABC News. “Petsi Defus – and [Trump’s] Previous Administration – He was a decent hero of these programs, and they did not come with any warning to me to say, “Hey, this training may lead to a negative action for workers one day, right? So it is strange how can they apply something retrospectively.”

The administration staff said on a vacation that spoke to ABC News that they had no official responsibilities in their roles. All three administration employees who spoke with ABC News have also confirmed that the only program that looks like DEI that is likely to be prohibited under Trump’s executive order is change training sessions.

However, according to their knowledge, the three employees said on vacation that there is no list or way to match the employees in the administrative leave with training programs. Although they are convinced that these exercises link them to define the Trump administration to Dei, the employees did not confirm the reason for their vacation, according to those who spoke to ABC News.

The employee who works from New York has more than ten years of experience in managing federal programs. Several other employees said on an administrative vacation that this employee spoke during the weekend that they had received 2019 training, according to the employee.

“This is the only thing we can think about that any of us did,” the employee said.

After arriving at other colleagues with the same titles, the employee in New York said they had “assembled it.” This employee said that they took at least three training programs, such as the training program to change diversity since the initial training.