National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...

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 ...

"Those who we need, who are the best and brightest, are going to stay. Those who are under performers — won't," said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

Public service unions have filed a lawsuit to block mass terminations of probationary federal employees as directed by the OPM.

The layoffs have taken place across many agencies, including Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Education, Energy, ...

Trump's administration, with Elon Musk's DOGE, begins mass layoffs of probationary federal employees to streamline operations ...

Federal employment attorneys say probationary employees who were fired can apply for unemployment insurance and have other ...

The first firings of Defense Department civilian probationary employees are expected to start next week, with about 5,400 set ...

The Pentagon said on Friday it would start firing about 5,400 civilian employees who were on probation, the first moves by ...

President Donald Trump's administration and the DOGE are offering to lay off federal employees, in hopes of cutting budgets.