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

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

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that will enable the government to fire probationary employees more easily. Instead of automatically gaining full status in one or two ...

In news about the Trump administration’s job-slashing effort, one class of federal workers comes up repeatedly: “probationary” employees. At the Internal Revenue Service, 6,700 people with that status ...

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to rehire probationary employees at six federal agencies, including USDA. U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at strengthening probationary periods for federal employees, eyeing greater accountability and efficiency within the federal workforce.

Some employees have been placed on administrative leave and don’t even have their laptops back yet. Some employees have been placed on administrative leave and don’t even have their laptops back yet.

The Defense Department is complying with a judge’s order to reinstate probationary employees sent packing after the Office of Personnel Management directed agencies to fire them en masse, according to ...

The Internal Revenue Service didn't follow its own internal procedures when terminating thousands of probationary employees nor consider their individual performance, according to a new report. The ...

Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also ...

Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke said Friday that Forest Service and National Park Service probationary workers terminated earlier this year by the Trump administration will get their jobs back — at ...