“Please note that, by this memorandum, OPM is not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions regarding probationary employees,” reads the updated OPM guidance. This is almost certainly a factor in the Trump administration’s decision to suddenly revise its OPM guidance. But the judge’s ruling last week has resulted in some federal agencies scrambling to rehire people they just fired. The National Science Foundation, for one, is trying to reinstate 84 employees it fired as part of OPM’s directive. “The government has not followed any of those [rules] in terminating employees to date, to include the mass firing of probationary employees,” Wilson said.

Source: Huffington Post March 05, 2025 04:00 UTC