Statistically speaking, the firing of a federal employee is a rare event. A Cato Institute study showed that in one year, just 1 in 5,000 non-defense, civilian federal employees was fired for cause. A widely cited analysisby USA Today found that in FY 2011, the federal government fired just 11,668 out of 2.1 million employees (excluding military and postal workers). That’s a “separation for cause†rate of 0.55 percent, roughly a fifth the rate in the private sector.
But fully 60 percent of federal employees fired were in their first two years on the job.
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