A recent memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) under the Trump administration has directed federal agencies to evaluate employees hired within the last year and emphasized that these workers can be terminated more easily. The memo highlights that employees in the competitive service with less than one year of service, and in the excepted service with less than two years of service, can be dismissed without triggering appeal rights through the Merit Systems Protection Board.
The memo, attributed to OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell, has requested agencies to submit a report by the end of the work week to determine whether these recently hired employees should be retained or let go. OPM, which functions as the human resources arm of the federal government, is overseeing this directive.
