Thousands of probationary employees fired as Trump administration directs agencies to carry out widespread layoffs
The Trump administration broadened its effort to terminate thousands of probationary workers on Thursday, instructing ...
Interior Department fires 2,300 employees after OPM directive
The Interior Department is firing 2,300 employees after a directive from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). An ...
Dozens of OPM probationary employees were fired on a mass video call on Thursday and given 20 minutes to collect their belongings
"We ask that you gather your personal belongings and exit the premises by 3 p.m. ET as well," an official on the call said.
What we know about mine where Elon Musk says federal retirement claims are processed by hand
On Feb. 11, tech billionaire Elon Musk and the Department for Government Efficiency, which he leads, made a series of claims about a limestone mine in Pennsylvania where the U.S. government allegedly ...
Federal retirements really are sorted by hand in an old mine. Elon Musk knocked the system.
Hundreds of federal workers process thousands of retirement applications every month, by hand in a converted former mine.
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Several agencies end telework, remote work agreements and set return-to-office dates
AFGE Council 238 President Marie Owens Powell says the EPA’s notice to employees is in violation of the union’s collective ...
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GSA ‘losing too many people,’ as leaders pursue cuts to personnel, office space and contracts
About 2,000 GSA employees — approximately 15% of its workforce — live more than 50 miles from the nearest GSA regional office amid return-to-office push.
Federal agency fires staff, calls it an error, fires them again
Trump’s Small Business Administration told probationary staff members it had mistakenly sent them termination notices, and ...
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A federal worker tried to take Trump’s ‘Fork’ resignation offer. Here’s what happened
Liz Goggin, a social worker with the Veterans Health Administration, took the offer to resign in exchange for pay and ...
Elon Musk Is Breaking the National-Security System
Their concerns proved prescient, and today, Scattered Castles remains segregated from OPM’s systems—fortunately, given recent ...
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President Donald Trump’s Small Business Administration told probationary staff members it had mistakenly sent them ...
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Making sense of the chaotic state of the civil service
That could too easily turn into a political loyalty test, with the politicization of an impartial, politically neutral civil ...