I Wasn’t Fired for ‘Insufficient Efficiency’

In “

Trump Layoffs Hit Probationary Staff” (U.S. Information, Feb. 14), U.S. Workplace of Personnel Administration officers are reported to have directed federal businesses to deal with “low-performing” newly employed federal staff. Quite the opposite, businesses are firing most probationary, which means nontenured, staff en masse, no matter their efficiency. I’m one such casualty. Not too long ago employed by the Well being and Human Companies Division, I labored on Medicare points, tasked with recouping cash for the federal government. I used to be fired for supposed insufficient efficiency however was too new to have had an official efficiency evaluate. As an alternative, all my casual suggestions had been constructive, and my formal evaluations throughout my earlier years of federal service had been uniformly excellent.

Probationary staff could also be fired for insufficient efficiency, they usually have slim grounds to attraction to the U.S. Benefit Programs Safety Board. In apply, businesses are indiscriminately firing lots of probationary staff supposedly for poor efficiency, with out regard to the staff’ precise efficiency or the worth of their work to the American public.