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Streamlining Probationary and Trial Period Appeals
The Personnel Management Office published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026. It took effect on September 2, 2026.
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What the agency says
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) inoperative. This final rule establishes a new, limited appeals process adjudicated by OPM. The final rule also makes conforming amendments.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-15654
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Personnel Management Office
- Published
- August 3, 2026
- Takes effect
- September 2, 2026
- Dates
- Effective September 2, 2026. Covered actions (i.e., terminations, assignments, noncertifications, or failures to certify/ finalize) effected before the effective date of this rule are not governed by this final rule.
- Docket
- Docket ID: OPM-2025-0013
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 3206-AO96
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 5 CFR 11; 5 CFR 230; 5 CFR 315; 5 CFR 432; 5 CFR 751; 5 CFR 752
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Civil defense; Government employees
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 44
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