President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that will enable the government to fire probationary employees ...

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 ...

Experts in federal employment law said the Trump administration’s justifications to end the investigations were baffling at best.

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

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

“This is because your termination, in the context of the government-wide effort to reduce the federal service through probationary terminations, was more likely effected in accordance with the ...

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

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 ...

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 decision further clears the way for the Trump administration to re-fire, for now, probationary employees. Those are typically federal workers in their first or second year on the job, or who have ...

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 ...