USA TODAY reviewed 10 termination letters. All but one mentioned performance concerns. Fired probationary employees interviewed by USA TODAY all said they were never told of any performance problems.

The employee, who received a termination letter three weeks before probation would have ended, said she held a master’s degree in geospatial intelligence and had worked in the same role as a ...

The Office of Personnel Management that directed the termination of thousands of probationary workers at six federal agencies ...

Several federal agencies have been ordered to inform thousands of terminated probationary employees that their dismissals were not performance-based, as originally stated in their termination letters, ...