National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...

Warren Hill spent more than two decades working at the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, which spans 4 million acres in ...

The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of ...

Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of ...

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President ...

The Defense Department, which is the largest government agency, says it's reducing its civilian workforce by 5% to 8%.

Workers classified as "probationary" typically have less than two years of experience in their roles. The layoffs came one day after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's buyout ...

Federal workers, particularly what’s known as probationary workers, are preparing for sweeping layoffs. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broad efforts to significantly shrink the size ...

The Trump administration broadened its effort to terminate thousands of probationary workers on Thursday, instructing agencies on a call to move forward with the layoffs. Officials have set their ...