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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management met with federal agencies Thursday and told them to start letting go of probationary employees, a source familiar with the meetings told the News4 I-Team.
That source knew of no federal agency that was exempt.
There are at least 216,000 probationary employees that could be impacted, the I-Team confirmed. That is 9.4% of the total federal workforce.
Federal workers can be on probation anywhere from one to two years — before all their civil service protections kick in.
“The probationary period is a...
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