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 demonstrator holds a sign in support of federal workers during a President's Day protest in Washington, DC, in February. - Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Images Days after a Maryland federal judge ...

The layoffs target probationary workers, who typically have been in a role for less than two years. It comes as the Trump administration targets spending in the federal government. Mass layoffs swept ...

Giving an employee a probationary period has advantages. It allows them to achieve more and offers the company a chance to see if training is necessary.

President Donald Trump's administration is targeting the federal workforce to cut back on costs, and employees within their ...

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, according to ...

A federal appeals board has ordered nearly 6,000 USDA employees back to work after they were fired during their probationary periods last month. "I find reasonable grounds to believe" that the ...

The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) has determined that six probationary employees were improperly terminated, asking an employment body to intervene and temporarily bar the removals in a matter ...

Following California District Judge Willian Alsup’s Friday ruling that the Office of Personnel Management doesn’t have the authority to order the mass terminations of federal employees across ...

About 7,000 probationary IRS workers who lost their jobs in February and were placed on administrative leave in March will return to work later this month, according to an email they received Tuesday.