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 ...

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 ...

Some Energy Department employees began the day Friday discovering they were locked out of their government computers. Soon they received a memo forwarded from their colleagues to their personal emails ...

Many federal probationary employees have been let go, such as some OPM and Forest Service workers. BI looked at which states and agencies have the most federal workers who have been on the job for ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Social Security Administration on Thursday gave 41 probationary employees in the agency’s headquarters and regional offices the choice to be reassigned to frontline agency work or to get caught up ...

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 ...