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

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

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 lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the Office of Personnel ...

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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is preparing for a hiring freeze and an “aggressive” effort to fire civilian employees as the Trump administration’s axe to the federal workforce ...

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 ...