Many probationary workers at the Department of Health and Human Services had been put on paid leave amid court battles with ...

After firing tens of thousands of federal workers this year, President Donald Trump has also made it much harder for them to ...

The Trump administration wants to make it easier for supervisors in the federal workforce to dismiss probationary employees ...

The Office of Special Counsel has concluded it cannot pursue allegations by more than 2,000 federal employees who have filed ...

The Trump administration’s earlier efforts to mass remove federal probationers had encountered several legal obstacles.

A federal judge says he sympathizes with thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration, ...

In new guidance, OPM specified the four factors agencies should consider when deciding whether probationary employees should keep their jobs.

The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) told fired probationary employees it would no longer pursue complaints they were wrongfully terminated, a reversal that comes after the Trump administration ...

Probationary government workers already have far fewer job protections than their established colleagues, and they were the Trump administration’s first targets for mass firings earlier this year.

The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) told fired probationary employees it would no longer pursue complaints they were wrongfully terminated, a reversal that comes after the Trump administration ...

One probationary employee who was fired from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, an agency in the Treasury Department, said this outcome was expected as soon as Mr. Trump installed Mr ...

Trump in an executive order, opens new tab on Thursday said that government workers will get to keep their jobs after the ...