OPM proposes limiting probationary employee appeals, shifting cases from the MSPB to OPM and allowing challenges only for political or marital status discrimination or procedural errors.
The House Oversight Committee advanced various bills this week, some of which have direct implications for federal employees.
OPM is directing agencies to “designate at-least the second-line supervisor….” to make continued employment decisions for probationary employees.
A DC judge notes that with all the cases filed in court, “whiplash ensued”. Here is a summary of a very recent case decision brought by former probationary employees.
Two bills have been introduced to help federal employees and combat the Trump administration’s efforts to make cuts to the federal workforce.
A new Executive Order and OPM guidance on the probationary period of federal employees will make it even easier to terminate these employees.
A new executive order creates new requirements on agencies for a federal employee to move from a probationary period to a career federal employee.
Bills have been introduced in Congress to protect federal employees from layoffs that have been taking place under the Trump administration.
A federal appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for President Donald Trump’s administration to fire thousands of probationary workers, halting a judge’s order requiring them to be reinstated in a legal win for Trump’s effort to downsize the federal workforce.
The Supreme Court has overturned a narrow order issued by a district court judge on the firing of probationary employees in the federal government.
