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 ...
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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 ...
Hegseth calls for DOD civilian employees to comply with OPM email directive
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Sunday he is now directing all department civilian employees to respond to emails ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 quietly swapped out privacy assessment for governmentwide email system central to ongoing litigation
Without any notice, OPM replaced a key privacy document for the agency's mass email system that's central to ongoing ...
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OPM moves to place political appointees into senior HR roles
The office's acting director argued in a memo that during the Biden administration career human resources people implemented ...
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 ...
Trump Admin Gives Agencies Back Power to Fire Government Employees
An updated memo from the Trump administration shifts the power to fire federal workers, giving more authority back to ...