The Defense Department said Friday that it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring ...

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.

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

WASHINGTON -- The IRS will lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning Thursday, a person ...

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 ...

Washington – The Defense Department said Friday it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a ...

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

Federal workers, particularly what’s known as probationary workers, are preparing for sweeping layoffs. Here's what that ...

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 ...