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 ...

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 ...

Federal agencies must inform thousands of employees fired during their probationary periods that they were not let go as a result of their performance, a judge has ruled, though he will allow the ...

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 ...

OPM said in an email to agency human resources employees that it is aware of recent litigation and that it doesn't have the ...

Under proposed rules issued last week, newly hired federal workers would no longer be able to appeal adverse actions to the ...

The board overseeing federal government employment temporarily blocked the firing of six government workers on Tuesday after finding that their dismissal, part of the mass purge of probationary ...

Federal probationary employees who were recently fired as part of the sweeping cuts carried out by President Donald Trump’s administration are not sure what to do at the moment, largely because they ...