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EPA Workers Receive Emails Warning their Employment could Be Terminated
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More than 1,100 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency received notice today that they were considered to be on probationary status and alerting they might be fired immediately, according to an email obtained by CNN.
Probationary workers getting the email have actually been operating at the firm for less than a year. The e-mails began to go out late on Wednesday afternoon, according to an EPA union official.
The same message will be sent out to other firm workforces, a White House official said. Across the US government, the most recent information shows there are more than 220,000 workers on probation.
"As a probationary/trial duration worker, the agency can immediately terminate you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804,” the EPA e-mail to probationary employees reads. “The procedure for probationary removal is that you receive a notification of termination, and your employment is ended instantly.“
"Each worker's status will be figured out separately,” the email includes.
The email also define an appeals procedure workers can take to see if they are eligible for employment additional protection.
The approach is comparable to how Elon Musk, now a key Trump adviser, dealt with layoffs when he purchased Twitter - make a new email alias (in this case, notice@epa.gov) and after that send mass termination letters to everybody on it.
The US Office of Personnel Management decreased to comment, and the White House and EPA did not respond to demands for additional remark.
The EPA union authorities stated these probationary employees aren't the very same as at-will employees
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