A U.S. district judge in California ordered six federal agencies, including the USDA, to reinstate probationary employees who ...

The latest cuts focus on roughly 200,000 employees classified as probationary workers, including staffers at the Forest Service and the Energy Department.

Many federal agencies fill their jobs like private industry by allowing applicants to contact the agency directly for additional job information and in understanding the application process.

"Those dismissed today are bargaining-unit probationary employees who have served less than a year in a competitive service appointment or who have served less than two years in an excepted ...

aims to prohibit certain changes to the classification of federal employment positions, particularly concerning the transfer of employees between competitive service and excepted service roles.

California and Washington, DC, are home to many federal workers with less than a year of service. OPM data showed ... served less than two years in an excepted service appointment," a news release ...

“have served less than a year in a competitive service appointment, or who have served less than two years in an excepted service appointment.” Employees who fit this description, as well as temporary ...

The Department of Veteran Affairs announced Tuesday that it dismissed more than 1,400 probationary employees in non-mission critical positions.

Support H.R. 302, Preventing a Patronage System Act, which would prevent the executive branch from creating new classes of excepted service employees, which would not be subject to merit system rules.

Those impacted include non-bargaining unit probationary employees who have served less than a year in a competitive service appointment or who have served less than two years in an excepted ...