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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Elon Musk’s directive to federal workers to explain their productivity or get the ax could take them 165,000 hours of their workdays to complete
Federal workers make an average of about $106,000 annually, or about $51 hourly for a 40-hour work week, according to OPM, meaning the time needed for all federal workers to reply to the email ...
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OPM instructs agencies to turn over plans for mass government layoffs
It also indicates the White House is eager to speed the shedding of federal workers, noting OPM can cut in half the 60-day notification period for employees being laid off, meaning swift-moving ...
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Federal hiring is nearly frozen. For those who can hire, a new roadblock has emerged
"The assurances Secretary Collins gave veterans that VA doctors and nurses would be exempt from Trump's disastrous VA hiring freeze mean nothing when OPM is blocking the Department from hiring for ...
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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
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 ...
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OPM retroactively edits probationary firing guidance to note it did not order probationary firings
The revision follows a court ruling that found the Office of Personnel Management illegally ordered agencies to terminate large swaths of employees in their probationary periods, most frequently ...
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OPM alters memo about probationary employees but does not order mass firings reversed
The Trump administration has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to provide a list of all probationary employees to the Office of Personnel Management, adding a disclaimer that OPM is ...
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OPM fires its own probationary period staff
Recent hires at the Office of Personnel Management were terminated on Thursday afternoon, according to three people familiar with the matter and internal communications obtained by Government ...
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Trump administration's federal "buyout" plan moves forward. Here's what to know.
Shortly after the ruling came down, the Office of Personnel Management said the program was closed, meaning workers who had not previously taken the deal no longer had the option to do so.
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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 ...
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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 ...