The Office of Personnel Management met with agencies across the federal government on Thursday and directed them to fire all employees still on probation a year or more after being hired. Federal employees can be on probation from one to two years after being hired.

Workers across the federal government were terminated on Thursday after the federal government’s human resources division advised agencies to lay off most probationary employees.

The Trump administration is intensifying its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil servic