President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at strengthening probationary periods for federal employees, eyeing greater accountability and efficiency within the federal workforce.

A new executive order introduces Civil Service Rule XI, aimed at strengthening the use of probationary and trial periods to assess the fitness of newly hired Federal employees before their ...

Section 1. Purpose. The American people deserve a Federal workforce that is high-quality, efficient, dedicated to the public interest, and no larger than necessary. Probationary periods (for employees ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order expanding the reasons agencies may fire probationary employees, a group the administration has sought to dismiss en masse as part of ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order expanding the reasons agencies may fire probationary employees, a group the administration has targeted with mass removals as part of its ...

In recent months, the federal government has fired tens of thousands of probationary employees. According to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union, ...