‘Do not intend to produce’: Trump admin says OPM head will defy court order to testify in mass firings case
In the underlying litigation, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and other labor unions accuse the Office ...
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‘It’s the shadow OPM’: How DOGE is using a once-obscure federal agency as ground zero for its plans to shrink government
The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal government, is now ground zero for Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to ...
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OPM says Musk's ultimatum is voluntary after a weekend of confusion
The Office of Personnel Management -- effectively the human resources agency for the federal government -- updated agency human resources officers on a Monday call over Elon Musk's call for the ...
Trump Official Will No Longer Testify in Challenge to Mass Firings
The government said in a court filing that Charles Ezell, who issued the memos that agencies interpreted as orders to fire ...
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Agencies take cautious approaches to OPM email asking for list of accomplishments
Protesters gather outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The group of federal employees and ...
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Judge orders 6 agencies to rehire fired federal probationary workers after "unlawful" terminations
Washington — A federal judge in California ordered six federal agencies to reinstate probationary employees who were fired last month, finding that their terminations by the Office of Personnel ...
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OPM instructs agencies to turn over plans for mass government layoffs
A Wednesday memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directs agencies across government to turn over plans for widespread layoffs of federal ...
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OPM distances itself from probationary worker firings, retroactively edits memo to federal agencies
Updated: March 4 at 3:07 p.m. ET The Office of Personnel Management has retroactively edited a Jan. 20 memo to federal agencies, in which the office instructed agencies to send lists of ...
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OPM illegally ordered agencies to fire ‘probationary’ federal employees, judge rules
A judge ruled Thursday that the Office of Personnel Management — the central human resources office for the federal government — broke the law when it ordered other federal agencies to ...
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DOJ lawyers decline to let OPM's acting director testify about mass firings
U.S. District Judge Charles Alsup had sought to have the acting head of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Charles Ezell, testify on Thursday about the mass firing of probationary employees.
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OPM inspector general will examine DOGE access to IT systems
An Office of Personnel Management watchdog investigation into cybersecurity risks on government networks and the potential exposure of sensitive information will include an examination of DOGE access ...
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OPM triggers more RIFs after ‘clean cleaving’ an entire office
The Office of Personnel Management is laying off its entire procurement team as the federal government’s human resources agency continues to reduce its footprint. Employees were informed Friday ...