The Trump administration is looking to alter both the latitude and method for probationary federal employees to appeal an agency’s decision to fire them.

A new executive order introduces Civil Service Rule XI, aimed at strengthening the use of probationary and trial periods to assess the fitness of newly hired Federal employees before their ...

A House panel on Tuesday voted along party lines to advance legislation that would double the amount of time new federal employees must serve before earning their full civil service protections. The ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order expanding the reasons agencies may fire probationary employees, a group the administration has targeted with mass removals as part of its ...

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 ...

In recent months, the federal government has fired tens of thousands of probationary employees. According to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union, ...