The Trump administration is targeting the federal workforce with sweeping cuts and employees who are still on probationary status are some of the first positions on the chopping block. The ...

The Office of Personnel Management on Wednesday urged supervisors at federal agencies to take a more active role in managing the performance of new federal employees, including removing those who ...

Federal probationary employees who were recently fired as part of the sweeping cuts carried out by President Donald Trump’s administration are not sure what to do at the moment, largely because they ...

Many federal probationary employees have been let go, such as some OPM and Forest Service workers. BI looked at which states and agencies have the most federal workers who have been on the job for ...

A Small Business Administration employee received a dreaded phone call from her manager last week. Check your inbox, the supervisor said. The employee was out on medical leave so it was not until that ...

Michelle Kirchner was just a few weeks away from making it through her probationary period with the Agriculture Department when she was fired Friday via email, ending what she’d considered a dream job ...