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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 ...

A second federal judge ruled Thursday that thousands of probationary employees laid off en masse by the Trump administration must be temporarily reinstated to their jobs. The new temporary restraining ...

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.

Days after a Maryland federal judge ruled that terminated probationary workers must be temporarily reinstated, multiple federal agencies have told their staffers that they are complying with the ...