The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is telling agencies to continue to use the probationary period for federal workers after the Trump administration issued a directive last month for agency heads to review workers under probation for possible dismissal.
“The Trump Administration is encouraging agencies to use the probationary period as it was intended: as a continuation of the job application process, not an entitlement for permanent employment,” an OPM official told The Epoch Times on Wednesday.
The spokesperson also confirmed reports that it is instructing the heads of agencies that they do not have to terminate all government employees who are on probation but to instead focus on low-performing workers….