More than 1,100 employees at the Epa received notice today that they were deemed to be on probationary status and employment alerting they could be fired right away, employment according to an e-mail gotten by CNN.

Probationary employees receiving the e-mail have actually been operating at the agency for less than a year. The e-mails began to go out late on Wednesday afternoon, according to an EPA union authorities.

The exact same message will be sent out to other agency labor forces, a White House official said. Across the US federal government, the current data shows there are more than 220,000 workers on probation.

"As a probationary/trial period worker, the agency can instantly end you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804," the EPA email to probationary workers checks out. "The process for probationary elimination is that you receive a notice of termination, and your employment is ended instantly."

"Each worker's status will be determined individually," the email includes.

The email also define an appeals process staff members can require to see if they are eligible for extra defense.

The approach is similar to how Elon Musk, now an essential Trump consultant, dealt with layoffs when he purchased Twitter - make a new email alias (in this case, notice@epa.gov) and then send mass termination letters to everyone on it.

The US Office of Personnel Management declined to comment, and the White House and EPA did not react to requests for additional remark.

The EPA union authorities stated these probationary workers aren't the like at-will employees