The Order institutes a new Civil Service Rule XI to ensure agencies effectively utilize probationary and trial periods. Civil Service Rule XI supersedes subpart H and requires agencies to ...

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Employees’ physical and IT system access was deactivated at 3 p.m. ET on Thursday. On-site staff were also asked to quickly exit the Office of Personnel Management’s premises. Recent hires at the ...

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President Donald Trump's administration, alleging that officials are exploiting and ...

Select the new employee's hire type to learn more about the minimum and maximum number of weeks to be served for the probationary period. All classified service positions are divided into four ...

A coalition of government employee unions sued late Wednesday over the Trump administration’s efforts to fire employees still in their probationary period across the federal government. The Office of ...

More than 300 fired federal employees across 43 states say the 2025 Trump administration layoffs still haunt their lives.

Recent hires at the Office of Personnel Management were terminated on Thursday afternoon, according to three people familiar with the matter and internal communications obtained by Government ...