EPA took part in the purge, terminating approximately 419 probationary employees between Feb. 14 and Feb. 21, according to a court declaration by Krysti Wells, then the director of the agency’s human ...

Energy Department officials have told the agency’s program leaders to inform probationary employees they will be fired on Thursday, a move that could include up to 2,000 people, according to DOE ...

The layoffs target probationary workers, who typically have been in a role for less than two years. It comes as the Trump administration targets spending in the federal government. Mass layoffs swept ...

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

The Agriculture Department says it will pay probationary employees fired last month back pay and work on a “phased plan” for their return to the office. The department was responding Tuesday to a ...

The Defense Department is complying with a judge’s order to reinstate probationary employees sent packing after the Office of Personnel Management directed agencies to fire them en masse, according to ...

Following California District Judge Willian Alsup’s Friday ruling that the Office of Personnel Management doesn’t have the authority to order the mass terminations of federal employees across ...

A federal judge has stayed what he called “likely unlawful mass terminations” of probationary federal employees but narrowed the scope of his injunction to the 19 states and the District of Columbia ...

The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) has determined that six probationary employees were improperly terminated, asking an employment body to intervene and temporarily bar the removals in a matter ...