The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of ...

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

WASHINGTON -- The IRS will lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning Thursday, a person ...

Warren Hill spent more than two decades working at the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, which spans 4 million acres in ...

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

The Defense Department, which is the largest government agency, says it's reducing its civilian workforce by 5% to 8%.

Federal workers, particularly what’s known as probationary workers, are preparing for sweeping layoffs. Here's what that ...

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

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 ...