IRS broke rules in firing probationary employees, Treasury Department watchdog finds

Mass Layoffs at IRS Violated Policy, Treasury Watchdog Says

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) violated its own procedures when it terminated more than 7,000 probationary employees this year, including some who performed critical services, Treasury’s inspector general said in a report last week. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) stated in a report released on Aug. 14 that the IRS did not follow its internal rules requiring 30-day notice periods and failed to consider individua…

IRS Broke Its Own Rules When It Terminated Contracts Of Over 7,000 Employees, Reveals Treasury Watchdog

IRS violated termination policies, fired thousands of probationary employees without notice or considering performance. Reinstated by Treasury.

Watchdog: IRS Broke Own Rules in Laying Off 7K Employees

When it laid off more than 7,000 probationary employees earlier this year as part of the Department of Government Efficiency cuts, an internal watchdog found that the IRS failed to follow its own procedures.

Nearly half of RIF’d IRS probationary staffers had ‘fully successful’ or better reviews, watchdog finds

As the Trump administration ordered agencies in February to terminate probationary employees, several senior IRS officials sounded the alarm to the Treasury Department’s watchdog, making the case that those tax agency staffers had no performance issues. Those concerns proved to be well-founded: According to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, 51% of the 7,315 IRS probationary employees who were sent terminati…

IRS ignored performance when it fired probationary employees, watchdog says

When the IRS fired thousands of probationary employees earlier this year, agency officials did not account for any of the employees’ performance ratings in their termination decisions, according to a new report from an IRS watchdog. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found that virtually all of the 7,315 probationary employees that the IRS fired were either rated as high performers on their performance reviews — or oth…

Reasoning For IRS Firings Clashes With Reality, TIGTA Says

Probationary workers at the Internal Revenue Service who were told earlier this year that they were fired for performance had been rated highly or had not been there long enough to be evaluated, according to a report Tuesday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.