Recent hires at the Office of Personnel Management were terminated on Thursday afternoon, according to three people familiar with the matter and internal communications obtained by Government ...

A federal judge has ordered the acting head of the Office of Personnel Management to testify at a court hearing examining the legality of the Trump administration’s mass firings of federal employees, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – Layoffs are underway at multiple federal departments, according to union sources and termination notices reviewed by ...

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veterans Affairs leaders expect to trim more than 30,000 staffers from the department workforce by the end of September. (Charles ...

President Donald Trump's administration is targeting the federal workforce to cut back on costs, and employees within their probationary period may be the first to go. Trump's Department of Government ...

A coalition of government employee unions sued late Wednesday over the Trump administration’s efforts to fire employees still in their probationary period across the federal government. The Office of ...

Some Energy Department employees began the day Friday discovering they were locked out of their government computers. Soon they received a memo forwarded from their colleagues to their personal emails ...

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President Donald Trump's administration, alleging that officials are exploiting and ...

Employees’ physical and IT system access was deactivated at 3 p.m. ET on Thursday. On-site staff were also asked to quickly exit the Office of Personnel Management’s premises. Recent hires at the ...