The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) informed agency leaders that employee response to an email asking for a recap of what they accomplished last week is voluntary and that failure to do so ...

“Please note that, by this memorandum, OPM is not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions regarding probationary employees,” the new language in the revised memo reads.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is instructing agencies that they do not have to fire all federal employees still on probation but is encouraging them to remove any low performers.

On President Trump’s first day in office, OPM instructed agencies across government to collect names of probationary employees. Those workers typically were hired within the last one-to-two ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to rescind memos that directed agencies across the federal government to fire probationary employees, finding they were ...

About 100 people were on the call inside OPM, the U.S. government’s human resources agency. Staff on probation were told that because they had not taken the Trump administration’s buyout offer ...

Angela Alsobrooks and Maryland State Sen. Nick Charles, Rob Shriver, who was the acting director of OPM under the Biden administration, expressed concern and support for federal employees.

"We spend a lot of time managing our staff's emotions with each OPM email. I fear people will begin to resign and then our veterans are the ones who will suffer." The social worker also said ...

Agencies have since gathered those lists and delivered them to OPM, and some subsequently sent notices to staff reminding them of their status and their vulnerability to rapid firings. Recent ...

Some law enforcement agencies-- including the FBI-- have also instructed employees to "pause" any responses to the OPM email. In an email to all NOAA staff obtained by ABC News, Rear Adm.

CNN discovered the terminations when it made a freedom of information act (FOIA) request to OPM looking for those records, particularly regarding DOGE workers who were granted access to classified ...

“When and if required, the department will coordinate responses to the email you have received from OPM. For now, please pause any response to the OPM email titled ‘What did you do last week.’ ...