The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

The Pentagon said on Friday it would start firing about 5,400 civilian employees who were on probation, the first moves by ...

President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce.

Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of ...

A judge has denied labor unions' request to temporarily block the administration from carrying out mass firing of ...

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...

Several labor groups sued the Trump administration for allegedly firing tens of thousands of probationary employees illegally ...

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President ...

The Trump administration violated federal law by firing six federal employees on probationary status, a government oversight agency determined in cases that could play a role in challenges to ...

The American Federation of Government Employees said more firings from the Department of Defense are expected, including U.S.