The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of ...

President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce.

The Defense Department, which is the largest government agency, says it's reducing its civilian workforce by 5% to 8%.

Hours after The Washington Post contacted the U.S. Office of Personnel Management about the issue, GSA reversed itself.

The first firings of Defense Department civilian probationary employees are expected to start next week, with about 5,400 set ...

Federal workers caught up in the mass firings despite taking the "deferred resignation program" have received conflicting ...

The Pentagon said on Friday it would start firing about 5,400 civilian employees who were on probation, the first moves by ...

The termination letters that ended the careers of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees mean fewer people and less ...

In the weeks since President Donald Trump has assumed office, more than 200,000 federal workers at more than a dozen agencies ...