The order declares that employees will only attain full employment status if their managers review and sign off on their ...

President Donald Trump is demanding significant changes to the process by which probationary workers are evaluated before ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at strengthening probationary periods for federal employees, ...

As many as 2,000 fired federal probationary workers who filed complaints with the Office of Special Counsel have had their ...

The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) told fired probationary employees it would no longer pursue complaints they were ...

About 130 probationary employees at CISA have been on administrative leave since they were reinstated in March.

The case focuses on a judge's requirement that employees fired by the Trump administration be fully reinstated while ...

Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — Probationary workers were among the first victims of President Trump's second-term efforts to ...

The executive orders come the same day Trump signed a memorandum that directed the attorney general to crack down on foreign straw donors in U.S. elections.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the Trump administration and upheld the mass firing of tens of thousands of probationary federal employees, granting a request for an emergency ...

By Eileen Sullivan Reported from Washington. A federal judge in Maryland on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to stop firing probationary employees who live or work in 19 states and the ...

The fired probationary workers were not parties to the legal action. The impact of the ruling will be somewhat limited because a federal judge in Maryland issued a similar injunction last month ...