The voluntary buyout plan is meant to shrink the federal workforce, but in New Jersey, where nearly 23,000 people work for the federal government, the impact could have a ripple effect.

A federal judge lifted a previous order pausing the program Wednesday. Soon afterward, the Office of Personnel Management ...

The offer’s deadline closed Wednesday after a federal judge ruled to end a temporary pause to the program ordered last week.

A programme designed to shrink the number of US government employees by incentivising resignations has closed to new ...

Scores of firings have begun at federal agencies, with terminations of probationary employees underway at the Department of Education and the Small Business Administration, federal employees and union ...

A federal judge said the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" offer could go forward and about 40,000 federal workers had accepted the deal.

With a judge’s assent, the Trump administration moved to take next steps in the program and close it to new entrants.

Attorneys for the Trump administration and lawyers for a group of labor unions who filed a lawsuit faced off in a Boston ...