EPA took part in the purge, terminating approximately 419 probationary employees between Feb. 14 and Feb. 21, according to a court declaration by Krysti Wells, then the director of the agency’s human ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that will enable the government to fire probationary employees more easily. Instead of automatically gaining full status in one or two ...

In February 2025, the Internal Revenue Service had approximately 103,000 employees. By March, more than 11,400 of those workers had received termination notices as probationary employees or ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge ruled late Friday that federal probationary employees suffered an irreparable injury when the Office of Personnel Management directed federal agencies in February ...

The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to toss rulings that found its mass firings of recently hired and promoted federal employees unlawful, arguing that the judicial ...

The Internal Revenue Service didn't follow its own internal procedures when terminating thousands of probationary employees nor consider their individual performance, according to a new report. The ...

The Commerce Department and its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are already refiring probationary employees after a temporary court restraining order was lifted. The Trump ...

(The Hill) — A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled against Democratic attorneys general who sued the Trump administration over its mass firings of probationary employees, finding the states do ...

Giving an employee a probationary period has advantages. It allows them to achieve more and offers the company a chance to ...