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The letter explains contacting a union steward, understanding rights and limited appeal rules for competitive vs. excepted service employees, and verifying correct probationary status. It also outlines possible options such as MSPB appeals, prohibited personnel practice complaints to the Office of Special Counsel, EEO complaints, and venue selection constraints.","| Matthew Brossard, General Vice-President | Sandee Conner, Secretary-Treasurer  \nWhat to do if you receive a Termination While on Probation Letter  \n1. Contact your union steward. Your steward will help you decide if your rights were violated.  \n2. Know your rights. An employer may terminate an individual during his probationary period if the individual “fails to demonstrate his fitness or his qualifications for continued employment…” 5 C.F.R. 315.804 § (a) . Employees who “pass probation” acquire Board adverse action appeal rights to the Merit System Protection board and earn substantive and procedural protections in statute and in the Collective Bargaining Agreement.  \n3. Employees in the competitive service have limited appeal rights that excepted service employees don’t have 5 CFR 315.805 and 5 CFR 315.806(c) provide certain appeal rights to employees in the competitive service only concerning terminations for preappointment reasons, and terminations based on marital status or partisan political reasons. Employees in the competitive service may be able to file a grievance on your termination while on probation depending on how your collective bargaining agreement is written.  \n4. All federal employees, including excepted service employees, may choose instead to challenge their terminations while on probation actions by filing prohibited personnel practice complaints with the Office of Special Counsel, EEO complaints, or appellate procedures used to challenge discrimination based on past or present military service.  \n5. Make sure the Agency calculated your probationary status correctly. If you have prior federal service, you may become an employee with full due process and appeal rights even though you’re technically still serving a probationary period. Your steward can help you figure out if the agency correctly determined your status. This determination is made differently depending on whether your job is in the excepted service or the competitive service. For excepted service employees, the fundamental factor is whether the individual is a nonpreference eligible or preference eligible. For example, a nonpreference eligible excepted service employee can tack their prior service toward the completion of a probationary period or trial period where: 1) the prior service was performed in the same agency; 2) it was performed in the same line of work; and 3) it was completed with no more than one break in service of fewer than 30 days. Veterans in the excepted service are covered by the same regulations as the competitive service with respect to tacking; those considerations are set forth in 5 CFR 315.802(b) .  \n6. If you want to challenge, choose a venue. In the majority of situations, you may not challenge your termination in more than one venue. If you are excepted service, OSC or EEO procedures may be all that is available to you.  \n7. Do you believe your termination was made for partisan political reasons? Competitive Service employees may file a grievance whereas Excepted service employees may file a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. 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