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 ...
'Court will have to decide the sanction': Judge orders Trump DOJ to produce OPM head for testimony in mass firings case or face his wrath as legal showdown looms
A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to produce Charles Ezell, the acting director of the ...
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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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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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‘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 illegally ordered agencies to fire ‘probationary’ federal employees, judge rules
A judge ruled Thursday that the Office of Personnel Management — the central human resources office for the federal government — broke the law when it ordered other federal agencies to ...