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

President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce.

The Transportation Security Administration is tasked with protecting transportation centers and was created in the wake of ...

One letter cites a lack of “fitness or qualification” as the reason for termination – despite positive performance reviews.

Federal workers in a probationary period typically have less than one year on the job and have not yet gained civil service protection. Federal workers who received termination notices on Thursday ...

Many probationary employees in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have received termination letters from the new administration, according to recent reports. The exact number of workers ...

In addition, workers at some agencies were warned that large workplace cuts would be coming.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency's plans, and cuts could happen as soon as ...

Some officials estimated that as many as 10 percent of the government’s 2.3 million federal workers may have probationary status. The CDC’s rankings come as the Trump administration seeks to ...

Thousands of probationary employees in multiple government agencies are facing dismissal as the Trump administration continued its effort to rapidly thin the ranks of federal workers. The Office of ...

“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804,” the EPA email to probationary employees reads. “The process for ...