More than 1,100 staff members at the Epa got notice this week that they were considered to be on probationary status and warning they might be fired immediately, according to an email obtained by CNN.

Probationary staff members receiving the email have been operating at the company for less than a year. The e-mails started to head out late on Wednesday afternoon, according to an EPA union authorities.

The exact same message will be sent to other company workforces, a White House official said. Across the US federal government, the latest data programs there are more than 220,000 staff members on probation.

“As a probationary/trial period staff member, the firm has the right to immediately end you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804,” the EPA email to probationary employees checks out. “The process for probationary elimination is that you get a notice of termination, and your employment is ended right away.”

“Each worker’s status will be identified separately,” the e-mail includes.

The e-mail also spells out an appeals process staff members can require to see if they are eligible for extra defense.

The method is comparable to how Elon Musk, now an essential Trump consultant, managed layoffs when he bought Twitter - make a new email alias (in this case, notice@epa.gov) and after that send out 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 ask for extra comment.

The EPA union official stated these probationary workers aren’t the very same as at-will employees