National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...

President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce.

Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of ...

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President ...

The IRS plans to lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning Thursday. WASHINGTON — The IRS ...

The Transportation Security Administration is tasked with protecting transportation centers and was created in the wake of ...

The government’s chief human resources office lacked authority to fire thousands of probationary federal employees, a group ...

Federal workers in a probationary period typically have less than one year on the job and have not yet gained civil service protection. Federal workers who received termination notices on Thursday ...

Some officials estimated that as many as 10 percent of the government’s 2.3 million federal workers may have probationary status. The CDC’s rankings come as the Trump administration seeks to ...

In addition, workers at some agencies were warned that large workplace cuts would be coming. The decision on probationary workers, who generally have less than a year on the job, came from the ...

“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804,” the EPA email to probationary employees reads. “The process for ...