Government Hiring Freeze 2025 Government. As part of this freeze, no federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on. Should actions be identified that were undertaken before noon on january 20, 2025, that frustrate the purpose underlying this memorandum, i may modify or extend this.

This executive order freezes the hiring of federal civilian employees in the executive branch. The american federation of government employees, which represents 800,000 federal workers and is the largest union of federal employees, condemned the offer, which its.