Veterans Affairs leaders expect to trim more than 30,000 staffers from the department workforce by the end of September. (Charles Dharapak/AP) Veterans Affairs leaders dismissed more than 1,000 ...

A reinstated NOAA employee said individuals received calls from human resources personnel offering reinstatement just before Christmas.

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 ...

Federal agencies must inform thousands of employees fired during their probationary periods that they were not let go as a result of their performance, a judge has ruled, though he will allow the ...

Under proposed rules issued last week, newly hired federal workers would no longer be able to appeal adverse actions to the ...

The Order institutes a new Civil Service Rule XI to ensure agencies effectively utilize probationary and trial periods. Civil Service Rule XI supersedes subpart H and requires agencies to ...

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Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President Donald Trump’s administration, alleging that officials are exploiting and ...

FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration outlined the roles of probationary employees amid Democrats and some media outlets portraying recent mass firings of federal employees as a gutting of staffers ...

Federal probationary employees who were recently fired as part of the sweeping cuts carried out by President Donald Trump’s administration are not sure what to do at the moment, largely because they ...

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials met with agency leaders across government Thursday and directed them to begin firing employees still in their probationary period a year or more after ...