The IRS will lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning Thursday, a person familiar with the plans told The Associated Press. The layoffs affect probationary ...

Democrats decried the measure as a Trojan horse aimed at more easily screening new federal workers and job seekers on ideological grounds.

House Republicans' EQUALS Act would require most new federal employees to serve a two-year probationary period before becoming tenured government workers.

Within a slate of federal workforce bills, Oversight committee lawmakers will consider GOP-led proposals on official time, probationary periods and training.

The order includes workers fired from the Department of Veterans Affairs. A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary employees fired last month ...

Federal administration officials are working through the confusion of government cost-cutting mandates, resulting in widespread layoffs. Those workers and the community are aiming to understand who ...

A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to continue reinstating probationary federal employees who were fired from 20 federal agencies since the president took office earlier ...