Trump HR Office Seeks List of Easy-to-Fire Federal Workers (3)

The federal government’s HR office is directing agency leaders to consider firing career employees hired within the past year, part of plans “regarding critical potential personnel actions.”

Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Charles Ezell asked agencies Monday to compile lists of probationary employees by Jan. 24, defined as career staff in their roles for less than a year or employees appointed to the “excepted service” within the past two years, according to a memo posted on the Chief Human Capital Officers Council website. He directed agency leaders to “promptly determine whether those employees should be retained” at the ...