OPM walks back memo on firing probationary employees, leaving decision to agencies
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Tuesday updated its guidance to department heads that demanded the firing of ...
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OPM retroactively edits probationary firing guidance to note it did not order probationary firings
Judge William Alsup, who presided over the case, said the administration’s argument was not credible and ordered both the Jan ...
OPM guidance strips language saying response to emails is ‘explicitly voluntary’
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) quietly updated a privacy impact assessment on its efforts to email all federal ...
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OPM alters memo about probationary employees but does not order mass firings reversed
The Office of Personnel Management has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to identify probationary employees ...
Some remote federal employees get ultimatum from OPM: Move to Washington
The Office of Personnel Management email Wednesday to remote workers, some thousands of miles from Washington, told them they ...
‘It’s the shadow OPM’: How DOGE is using a once-obscure federal agency as ground zero for its plans to shrink government
The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal government, is now ...
Democratic lawmaker demands Musk, OPM stop sending mass emails to staffers: ‘Chaotic’
Cali., on Wednesday demanded that Elon Musk and Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Charles Ezell ...
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OPM tells agencies it’s not directing probationary firings
The human capital agency updated guidance to say it’s “not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions.
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OPM revises probationary employees guidance, says it was not directing agencies to fire feds
The Trump administration's update to the guidance comes after a federal judge ruled last week that OPM's communications on probationary employees were illegal.
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‘It’s the shadow OPM’: How DOGE is using a once-obscure federal agency as ground zero for its plans to shrink government
Current and former OPM employees describe an agency that’s been taken over by a shadow operation of political appointees affiliated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
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OPM signals broad agency layoffs, reorganization in new memo
The memo asks agency heads to develop plans for reductions in force and reorganization that include plans to promote ...