President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order expanding the reasons agencies may fire probationary employees ... mass removals as part of its goal to shrink the size of the federal ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to keep several thousand probationary federal employees it is attempting to fire off the payroll while lower courts weigh whether the ...

The Education Department is reinstating 65 probationary employees who were fired in the last two months, following a court order. The department won’t allow the employees to work and will instead ...

The Defense Department is complying with a judge’s order to reinstate probationary employees sent packing after the Office of Personnel Management directed agencies to fire them en masse ...

More than 130 probationary employees fired last month from the nation's top cyber defense agency will be reinstated Monday, ...

In separate rulings this week, federal judges in Maryland and California told the Trump administration that it must reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were let go without advance ...

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 ...

But there’s no template ... probationary employees across 19 agencies. The cases themselves will continue to move forward, with the government planning to appeal. But the plaintiffs’ goals ...

The mass firing of federal probationary employees was blocked in a decision from the United States District Court for Maryland. A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order ...

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to rehire probationary employees at six federal agencies, including USDA. U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of ...