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.

Dozens of probationary employees at the Office of Personnel Management were fired in a group video call Thursday afternoon and told their accounts would be deactivated by 3 p.m. ET, about 20 ...

Feb. 6 marked the deadline for federal workers to accept the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Trump Administration's offer of a buyout. These buyouts, or the option of "deferred ...

A screenshot of the first OPM test email sent to employees across the federal government Jan. 24. A lawsuit filed in federal court Monday alleges that the Office of Personnel Management set up an ...

Anonymous feds have already sued, alleging that the Office of Personnel Management violated the law by not publishing a privacy impact assessment before deploying the new system, leaving sensitive ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - All probationary staff at the Office of Personnel Management were fired on Thursday in a conference call and given less than an hour to leave the building in ...

“OPM is pleased the court has rejected a desperate effort to strike down the Deferred Resignation Program,” the agency said earlier Wednesday. “This program was carefully designed ...

The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management has told agency heads to begin firing federal employees who are on their probationary period, according to a source familiar with the ...

The Office of Personnel Management met with agencies across the federal government on Thursday and directed them to fire all employees still on probation a year or more after being hired.

This week, the court lifted the temporary freeze. In total, about 75,000 workers took the deal, according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). That's around 3% of all civil federal ...