"There is really no due process, there's no discovery, there's no hearing process," Michael Fallings, managing partner at ...

Under proposed rules issued last week, newly hired federal workers would no longer be able to appeal adverse actions to the ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that will enable the government to fire probationary employees more easily. Instead of automatically gaining full status in one or two ...

Probationary employees fired from the National Science Foundation are being reinstated following a court ruling and guidance from the Office of Personnel Management, the science agency said Monday.

In recent months, the federal government has fired tens of thousands of probationary employees. According to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union, ...

A reinstated NOAA employee said individuals received calls from human resources personnel offering reinstatement just before Christmas.

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 ...

The Trump administration has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to provide a list of all probationary employees to the Office of Personnel Management, adding a disclaimer that OPM is not ...

Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also ...

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration ("TIGTA") said the Internal Revenue Service terminated probationary employees, as part of President Donald Trump's orders to reduce the federal ...