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

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This clash follows months of staff reduction measures led by the Trump administration, accompanied by cost-cutting plans championed by Elon Musk’s Department ...

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.

The Department of Veterans Affairs indicated officials would begin reviewing the agency with the goal of laying off 80,000 ...

Those dismissed Feb. 24 are bargaining-unit probationary employees who served less than a year in a competitive service ...

Two different judges found the government didn’t follow the proper legal procedure in mass firings of probationary employees.

That's the same exec order that led to widespread workforce cuts across the federal government, steered by Elon Musk's ...

While Congress struggles to fund the government through September, NARFE staff vice president John Hatton said that there are some provisions to watch out for.

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

They were probationary workers who were in competitive service and excepted service appointments. Competitive service is a merit-based hiring system similar to the private sector. Agencies using ...