Leave, awards and more for federal employees: A roundup of OPM’s latest guidance
Leave, awards and more for federal employees: A roundup of OPM’s latest guidance  
Podcast: The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
Published On: Tue Aug 19 2025
Description: Agencies are facing tons of changing expectations from the Office of Personnel Management this year. In the last few weeks alone, OPM has told agencies how to think differently about awarding employees for good work, as well as how to implement recent changes to the federal probationary period. To help make sense of it all Federal News Network's Drew Friedman caught up with the Partnership for Public Services, Vice President of Government Affairs, Jenny Mattingly.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.