Since a draft of the new policy began circulating last fall, federal regulators expanded those excluded from agency reduction ...

Trump’s plans dealt another blow in court as federal judge orders fired probationary employees be rehired - Probationary employees in six government departments were fired in February.

The last year was marked by turmoil at science agencies and the administration’s stated desire to shrink the federal ...

The Trump administration's proposal to prioritize performance in RIFs comes after OPM teed up plans to limit high performance ratings for federal employees.

The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to toss rulings that found its mass firings of recently hired and promoted federal employees unlawful, arguing that the judicial ...

In a sweeping move to downsize the federal workforce, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to significantly reduce the federal workforce, with oversight from the Department of Government ...

A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled against Democratic attorneys general who sued the Trump administration over its mass firings of probationary employees, finding the states do not have ...

Probationary employees at the Interior Department who were targeted for mass firings earlier this year can now bring a class-action lawsuit challenging their treatment, a federal board ruled. The ...

The Internal Revenue Service didn't follow its own internal procedures when terminating thousands of probationary employees nor consider their individual performance, according to a new report. The ...

"There is really no due process, there's no discovery, there's no hearing process," Michael Fallings, managing partner at Tully Rinckey, said of a proposed rule the Trump administration published that ...