The OPM framed the severance offer from President Trump and his administration as "administrative leave with pay and benefits ...

As with all new and transferring employees, your employee is being placed on a six-month probation period. Probation is a “working test period" that gives your employee the opportunity to learn the ...

Going forward, agencies are told to prioritize low performing probationers for firing. Some have already taken a different ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is asking Congress to investigate the Trump administration’s plans for “imminent ...

The rules around federal probationary periods gained attention after an OPM memo asked agencies for lists of all their ...

OPM has given agencies until midday on Wednesday to send in a list of employees on probation and make the case to keep them.

Select the new employee's hire type ... there will be no probationary period. Departments may use the downloadable Excel sheet to determine the minimum and maximum probationary periods which are ...

The administration’s directives have been unclear about why it wants the names of probationary employees, but they appear to ...

More than 1,100 employes at the Environmental Protection Agency received notice this week that they were deemed to be on ...