President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce.

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

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

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

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.

Some workers at a Heartland veterans affairs clinic were among the more than 1,000 people recently terminated by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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

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