President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk's unprecedented and frantic effort to slash the federal workforce, pushing ...

A judge allowed the administration's mass layoffs to proceed, while a key appeals court ruling on the president's order to ...

Thousands of IRS employees around the country reported to work Thursday prepared for an email announcement that they were ...

Workers who maintained trails, removed combustible debris from forests, supported firefighters and secured money for wildfire ...

One letter cites a lack of “fitness or qualification” as the reason for termination – despite positive performance reviews.

Lyle Olsen has met so many decent, dedicated, goodwilled people since his first seasonal job with the U.S. Forest Service in ...

The Pentagon has temporarily delayed mass layoffs of thousands of probationary employees as they continue to review the ...

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

WASHINGTON >> Federal workers responsible for America’s nuclear weapons, scientists trying to fight a worsening outbreak of bird flu, and officials responsible for supplying electricity are among ...

Erie VAMC officials identified the employees as probationary staff, which means most of them had been working for less than one year.

Disabled workers on a two-year probation were especially vulnerable during the Trump administration's mass firings.