Dozens of employees who attended a diversity training course encouraged by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during President Donald Trump’s first term have been placed on paid leave, a union official told NBC News.

Employees at the Department of Education have been placed on administrative leave for voluntarily attending a diversity training program prior to the 2nd Trump administration. Sheria Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252,

The Education Department placed a number of employees across its offices on administrative leave on Friday, part of a wave of what staff members and union representatives say are dozens of suspensions at the agency in the Trump administration’s purge of diversity efforts.