Judge William Alsup, who presided over the case, said the administration’s argument was not credible and ordered both the Jan. 20 memo and the Feb. 13 directive to be rescinded. OPM has instead opted to edit the Jan. 20 memo.
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.
The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal government, is now ground zero for Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash bureaucracy and deconstruct vast portions of the administrative state.
The human capital agency updated guidance to say it’s “not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions.”
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) quietly updated a privacy impact assessment on its efforts to email all federal workers, stripping language indicating responses from the staffers were “explicitly voluntary.
Without any notice, OPM replaced a key privacy document for the agency's mass email system that's central to ongoing litigation in federal court.
OPM, email and federal employees
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OPM's second email to federal employees asks what they did last week — and adds a new requirement: report
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Some remote federal employees get ultimatum from OPM: Move to Washington
New email tells federal employees to list recent accomplishments weekly
Federal workers started getting emails on Friday night, “asking them to provide a list of accomplishments from the week,” reports The New York Times. According to the outlet, the message told workers they’ll now be expected to provide such a list every Monday by 11:59PM ET.
Maryland Democratic Senator Chis Van Hollen joined federal workers at a rally outside of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Tuesday.
A Wednesday memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directs agencies across government to turn over plans for widespread layoffs of
The Trump administration is arguing in court that agencies acted on their own to fire probationary staff, but it previously sent a government directive with a deadline for the firings.
“The implications of this are significant, including potential delays in mission-critical acquisitions, contract lapses, and increased operational risk for OPM. OPO’s limited team will be ...
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