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A demonstrator holds a sign in support of federal workers during a President's Day protest in Washington, DC, in February. - Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Images Days after a Maryland federal judge ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order expanding the reasons agencies may fire probationary employees, a group the administration has targeted with mass removals as part of its ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate roughly 25,000 federal employees. The temporary order is the latest ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at strengthening probationary periods for federal employees, eyeing greater accountability and efficiency within the federal workforce.

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order expanding the reasons agencies may fire probationary employees, a group the administration has sought to dismiss en masse as part of ...

Days after a Maryland federal judge ruled that terminated probationary workers must be temporarily reinstated, multiple federal agencies have told their staffers that they are complying with the ...