The Trump administration wants to make it easier for supervisors in the federal workforce to dismiss probationary employees ...

In new guidance, OPM specified the four factors agencies should consider when deciding whether probationary employees should keep their jobs.

The Office of Special Counsel dismissed around 2,000 wrongful termination complaints of fired federal probationary workers.

Employers sometimes include in their offer letters or employee handbooks ... is not defenseless against unlawful termination before completing a probationary period. A private sector, at-will ...

The email from the Office of Special Counsel said the watchdog “is unable to pursue a claim that your probationary termination” was a prohibited personnel practice. Even if the office could ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to halt a lower court order that required six federal agencies to rehire more than 16,000 probationary workers who had been fired.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the Trump administration and upheld the mass firing of tens of thousands of probationary federal employees, granting a request for an emergency ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Trump administration can move forward with the termination of 16,000 probationary federal workers across six agencies and departments ...