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 ...
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 ...
OPM says it can now process pensions digitally, as DOGE targets bizarre federal document mine
The Office of Personnel Management said it can process pensions entirely digitally, in two days, in a video promoted by Elon ...
‘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 ...
OPM's second email to federal employees asks what they did last week — and adds a new requirement: report
The Trump administration sent federal workers another email asking about their accomplishments as Elon Musk works to uncover ...
Federal hiring is nearly frozen. For those who can hire, a new roadblock has emerged
Some federal agencies, like the Department of Veterans Affairs, are largely exempt from President Trump's hiring freeze. But ...
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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.
DOGE wants to charge one federal agency millions of dollars for its work to make government more efficient
The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency wants to charge at least one federal agency millions of dollars for its ...
Trump tells Cabinet that they, not Musk, should ‘go first’ in cutting workers
The meeting represented the outpouring of weeks of building tensions between the head of DOGE and President Donald Trump’s ...
Trump administration revises directive to federal agencies on mass firings
The Office of Personnel Management issued revised guidance to federal agencies Tuesday regarding the firing of federal ...