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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely extended his order blocking the Trump administration from firing employees in their probationary periods at a slew of agencies, though his ruling narrowed those ...

In recent months, the federal government has fired tens of thousands of probationary employees. According to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union, ...

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 ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board on Wednesday ordered the reinstatement of between 5,600 and 5,900 Agriculture Department workers who were fired as part of the Trump administration’s governmentwide ...

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 ...

An advocacy group is gravely concerned about forced exits of hundreds of rangers, interpreters, and administrative staff in U.S. national parks. Reading time 4 minutes One thousand National Park ...