Veterans Affairs leaders expect to trim more than 30,000 staffers from the department workforce by the end of September. (Charles Dharapak/AP) Veterans Affairs leaders dismissed more than 1,000 ...

In March 2025, social media users claimed (archived) that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had rehired 6,000 employees after they were fired in February as part of the Trump administration's plan to ...

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 reinstated NOAA employee said individuals received calls from human resources personnel offering reinstatement just before Christmas.

Federal agencies must inform thousands of employees fired during their probationary periods that they were not let go as a result of their performance, a judge has ruled, though he will allow the ...

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 ...

Some of the federal employees who were fired in recent days were just shy of completing their probationary periods and securing more job protections. WTOP heard from several former federal employees ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under proposed rules issued last week, newly hired federal workers would no longer be able to appeal adverse actions to the ...