Instead of automatically gaining full status in one or two years, workers can only do so if their managers sign off on their ...

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

President Donald Trump is demanding significant changes to the process by which probationary workers are evaluated before ...

Trump’s order calls for the creation of “Civil Service Rule XI,” requiring agencies to review and approve probationary employees before they become tenured.

Court declines to block more firings of recently hired staff, saying individual agencies are now making their own decisions.

Experts in federal employment law said the Trump administration’s justifications to end the investigations were baffling at best.

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at strengthening probationary periods for federal employees, ...

The Order institutes a new Civil Service Rule XI to ensure agencies effectively utilize probationary and trial periods. Civil ...

As many as 2,000 fired federal probationary workers who filed complaints with the Office of Special Counsel have had their ...

The legal battle stems from the termination of an estimated 16,000 probationary federal employees since President Donald Trump took office, prompting a wave of lawsuits from Democrat-led states and ...

A network of thousands of lawyers will offer free legal support after recent and “unprecedented” levels of concern from ...