[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR315.804]

[Page 171]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 315_CAREER AND CAREER-CONDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart H_Probation on Initial Appoinment to a Competitive Position
 
Sec. 315.804  Termination of probationers for unsatisfactory
performance or conduct.

    (a) When an agency decides to terminate an employee serving a 
probationary or trial period because his work performance or conduct 
during this period fails to demonstrate his fitness or his 
qualifications for continued employment, it shall terminate his services 
by notifying him in writing as to why he is being separated and the 
effective date of the action. The information in the notice as to why 
the employee is being terminated shall, as a minimum, consist of the 
agency's conclusions as to the inadequacies of his performance or 
conduct.
    (b) Probation ends when the employee completes his or her scheduled 
tour of duty on the day before the anniversary date of the employee's 
appointment. For example, when the last workday is a Friday and the 
anniversary date is the following Monday, the probationer must be 
separated before the end of the tour of duty on Friday since Friday 
would be the last day the employee actually has to demonstrate fitness 
for further employment.

[33 FR 12418, Sept. 4, 1988, as amended at 60 FR 53505, Oct. 16, 1995]