Experts speculated that the measure is intended to address recent judgments against the administration’s workforce actions or to grant DOGE-aligned officials the ability to fire resisters.

The April 10 memo from acting OPM Director Charles Ezell to agency heads reminds them of the “great flexibility” they have when setting the pay of employees hired under Schedule C of the federal ...

A source familiar with OPM said agency leaders have directed agencies to fire all ... would violate laws saying workers can only be fired for cause. “Mass layoffs of federal employees of the ...

The IRS says fired probationary employees will remain on paid administrative leave until further notice, walking back plans to bring them back to their jobs.

The Defense Department is complying with a judge’s order to reinstate probationary employees sent packing after the Office of Personnel Management directed agencies to fire them en masse ...

The complaint was filed with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board in Washington by Mahri Stainnak, the former deputy director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's DEI office. Three other ...

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 ...

“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency,” Alsup said ...