President Donald Trump's administration is targeting the federal workforce to cut back on costs, and employees within their probationary period may be the first to go. Trump's Department of Government ...

The Agriculture Department says it will pay probationary employees fired last month back pay and work on a “phased plan” for their return to the office. The department was responding Tuesday to a ...

The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to toss rulings that found its mass firings of recently hired and promoted federal employees unlawful, arguing that the judicial ...

The nation’s premier cybersecurity agency is trying to contact certain employees affected by layoffs based on their employment status after federal judges ruled last week that the Trump administration ...

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 an abrupt U-turn, probationary staffers on administrative leave since February were asked to report back to work on Dec. 8 ...

A federal judge has barred USDA and five other departments from undertaking further mass terminations of probationary employees after finding this spring's firings resulted from unlawful directives ...

Thousands of federal employees, including in Wisconsin, are being targeted in President Donald Trump's mass layoffs in order to slash the size of the federal workforce across the country. Federal ...

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 ...