A federal personnel agency at the center of the mass terminations of government workers issued a revised memorandum to department heads on March 4 after a court found that the terminations of newer employees were likely illegal.
“Please note that, by this memorandum, OPM is not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions regarding probationary employees,” the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said in the revised memo. “Agencies have ultimate decision-making authority over, and responsibility for, such personnel actions.”
