(CNN) – The Education Department is offering a buyout of up to $25,000 to many of its employees.
An email from the agency’s top human resources official states employees have until Monday at 11:59 p.m. to decide if they want to accept the one-time offer.
The email said the offer is in advance of a “very significant reduction in force.”
Eligible employees include those who have worked for the federal government for at least three years.
They also cannot have received a student loan repayment benefit in the last three years.
The resignations would take effect at the end of the month.
The offer comes as the Republican-controlled Senate is set to vote on the nomination of Linda McMahon as education secretary on Monday.
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