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 ...

Federal agencies must inform thousands of employees fired during their probationary periods that they were not let go as a result of their performance, a judge has ruled, though he will allow the ...

The Order institutes a new Civil Service Rule XI to ensure agencies effectively utilize probationary and trial periods. Civil Service Rule XI supersedes subpart H and requires agencies to ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board on Wednesday ordered the reinstatement of between 5,600 and 5,900 Agriculture Department workers who were fired as part of the Trump administration’s governmentwide ...

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 ...

Federal probationary employees who were recently fired as part of the sweeping cuts carried out by President Donald Trump’s administration are not sure what to do at the moment, largely because they ...