President Donald Trump's administration is targeting the federal workforce to cut back on costs, and employees within their probationary period may be the first to go. Trump's Department of Government ...

A coalition of government employee unions sued late Wednesday over the Trump administration’s efforts to fire employees still in their probationary period across the federal government. The Office of ...

A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely extended his order blocking the Trump administration from firing employees in their probationary periods at a slew of agencies, though his ruling narrowed those ...

The Trump administration is targeting the federal workforce with sweeping cuts and employees who are still on probationary status are some of the first positions on the chopping block. The ...

A new executive order introduces Civil Service Rule XI, aimed at strengthening the use of probationary and trial periods to assess the fitness of newly hired Federal employees before their ...

Recent hires at the Office of Personnel Management were terminated on Thursday afternoon, according to three people familiar with the matter and internal communications obtained by Government ...

The probationary firings have hit several agencies, including Veterans Affairs, the Department of Energy, the Small Business Administration and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The cuts are ...