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 ...

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 of the ...

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, ...

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials met with agency leaders across government Thursday and directed them to begin firing employees still in their probationary period a year or more after ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ...