Administering Probation Termination Automatic Actions

When you first hire an employee, your agency usually imposes a probation period; most new regular federal employees have one-year probation periods. Supervisory or managerial employees and Senior Executive Service (SES) employees often have different probation periods, which you track separately.

The probation termination automatic action, like other automatic actions, identifies employees who will reach their probation termination date within 60 days. After you have activated workflow, the system sends messages to employee supervisors who are designated to process automatic actions. After the supervisors approve the probation termination, run the process to perform the actual changes to employee records, blanking out employee probation dates, indicating that they have met the probation period. Finally, you can send notices of completed probation periods to the designated supervisors' worklists.

This topic discusses how to run the probation termination automatic action.