Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump's administration is targeting the federal workforce to cut back on costs, and employees within ...

A coalition of government employee unions sued late Wednesday over the Trump administration’s efforts to fire employees still in their probationary period across the federal government. The Office of ...

A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely extended his order blocking the Trump administration from firing employees in their probationary periods at a slew of agencies, though his ruling narrowed those ...

The Trump administration is targeting the federal workforce with sweeping cuts and employees who are still on probationary status are some of the first positions on the chopping block. The ...

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 ...

Probational federal employees who lost their jobs on Thursday as part of the Trump administration's mass firing of government workers expressed shock and anger at the terminations, which they contend ...

The probationary firings have hit several agencies, including Veterans Affairs, the Department of Energy, the Small Business Administration and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The cuts are ...