Federal Register: OPM Issues Final Rule on Streamlining Probationary and Trial Period Appeals
August 01, 2026
August 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (TNSFR) -- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to change the circumstances and procedures for adjudicating appeals from employees terminated during their probationary and trial periods and supervisors and managers who fail to complete their probationary periods. Executive order, "Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service," rendered the prior procedures for appealing such actions to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) . . .
