The Trump administration is looking to alter both the latitude and method for probationary federal employees to appeal an agency’s decision to fire them.

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 ...

Giving an employee a probationary period has advantages. It allows them to achieve more and offers the company a chance to see if training is necessary.

In March 2025, social media users claimed (archived) that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had rehired 6,000 employees after they were fired in February as part of the Trump administration's plan to ...

President Donald Trump's administration is targeting the federal workforce to cut back on costs, and employees within their ...

People rally at Health and Human Services headquarters to protest the polices of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell) The unions ...

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 ...

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President Donald Trump's administration, alleging that officials are exploiting and ...