CNN10d
‘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 ...
FedScoop10d
OPM tells agencies it’s not directing probationary firings
Scenes from outside the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington on May 21, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Office of Personnel Management said in ...
NPR8d
Federal hiring is nearly frozen. For those who can hire, a new roadblock has emerged
The biggest barrier, according to an OPM official, congressional staffers, VA employees and veterans' organizations is that human resources officials across the federal government can no longer ...
The Hill10d
OPM guidance strips language saying response to emails is ‘explicitly voluntary’
OPM prepared a privacy impact assessment after it was sued for its creation of a database of federal employees using the [email protected] email. Now gone is language indicating employees have no ...
THE WEEK14d
Judge tells White House to stop ordering mass firings
He said he did not buy the government's argument that OPM merely requested the mass firings, often carried out via form letters citing nonexistent bad performance reviews. Several agency heads had ...