The Trump administration is looking to alter both the latitude and method for probationary federal employees to appeal an agency’s decision to fire them.

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 ...

Section 1. Purpose. The American people deserve a Federal workforce that is high-quality, efficient, dedicated to the public interest, and no larger than necessary. Probationary periods (for employees ...

The Internal Revenue Service violated its own policies when it fired thousands of probationary employees earlier this year at the direction of the Trump administration, the Treasury Department's ...

President Donald Trump's administration is targeting the federal workforce to cut back on costs, and employees within their probationary period may be the first to go. Trump's Department of Government ...