President Trump signed an executive order that simplifies the process for firing federal employees during their probationary period, already a vulnerable status with limited protections. Managers will now have to actively review and approve performance for these workers to achieve full employment status. This shift aims to empower agency heads while addressing issues from earlier mass firings that caused reinstatement challenges. Many affected employees, skilled in their roles, remain uncertain about their job security, often on paid administrative leave.
Probationary government workers already have far fewer job protections than their established colleagues, and they were the Trump administration's first targets for mass firings earlier this year.
The administration has been looking for ways to cut probationary employees, and this puts more power in the hands of agency managers.
Tens of thousands of probationary workers targeted by the Trump administration's cuts have been in limbo for months. Most are on administrative leave and are getting paid, but have no indication of how long that will continue.
Once the Office of Personnel Management, the government's human resources arm, formally issues the new policy, the government will be in a better legal position to fire probationary employees.
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