OPM’s guidance also includes several new templates agencies can give to probationary employees, depending on whether they are approved for continued service once they reach the end of their ...

Members of the American Federation of Government Employees union protesting budget cuts and layoffs near the Capitol in February. Probationary ... agencies used a template provided by the Office ...

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

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 ...

The Commerce Department and its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are already refiring probationary employees after a temporary court restraining order was lifted. The Trump ...

The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) told fired probationary employees it would no longer pursue complaints they were wrongfully terminated, a reversal that comes after the Trump administration ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order expanding the reasons agencies may fire probationary employees, a group the administration has sought to dismiss en masse as part of ...

However, he has now resigned from his job after completing his probationary period. He has now taken a job with a competitor. What is the appropriate legal action to take against this employee?

Reached for comment, the Office of Special Counsel declined to say how many of the more than 2,000 fired probationary employees with ... Federal agencies used a template provided by the Office ...

The Trump administration already has fired — and then scrambled to rehire — thousands of probationary employees. Key consumer and farmer-facing programs at USDA were not insulated: The readout ...