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 ...
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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Judge orders rescission of OPM memos directing agencies to fire probationary employees
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to rescind memos that directed agencies across the federal government to fire probationary employees, finding they were ...
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OPM instructs agencies to turn over plans for mass government layoffs
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 federal ...
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Veterans Affairs staffers denounce OPM email amid Elon Musk's DOGE push: 'People have no clue how this is impacting us'
"We spend a lot of time managing our staff's emotions with each OPM email. I fear people will begin to resign and then our veterans are the ones who will suffer." The social worker also said ...
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This Lawyer Thinks He’s Found a Way to Make DOGE Pay Feds for Accessing Their Information
Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley says Elon Musk's project violated the Privacy Act when it got into OPM's data.
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OPM memo that ‘categorically’ exempted military spouses from RTO ‘did almost nothing’
The revised OPM guidance came after a group of lawmakers put pressure ... We talk about supporting the warfighter — he’s the definition of a warfighter. He flies a special operations plane. He gets ...
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Federal agencies can ignore "What did you do last week?" email, Trump administration says
Two officials said that the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, held a call with the heads of human capital at federal agencies and said it's up to each entity to determine how they want to ...
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Federal worker in Oklahoma says colleagues have been fired by OPM without manager's knowledge
LAST ROUND OF TERMINATIONS. THEY HAD LAST WEEK AND THE WEEK BEFORE WAS JUST PEOPLE GETTING AN EMAIL FROM THIS OPM WEBSITE SAYING THEIR JOB IS NO LONGER NEEDED. AND SHE TELLS US MANAGERS DON’T EVEN ...
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OPM procurement processing fully halted following agency layoffs, internal email says
The Office of Personnel Management’s procurement unit ... The terminations in the agency’s procurement office mean that “all new procurement actions, contract modifications, and ongoing ...