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Federal workers still in their probationary period left their agencies at a higher rate than all full-time employees last ...

The malign forces trying to break the federal workforce have hit on another idea: targeting “probationary” employees. These are employees with one year or less of service in the federal government, ...

A group of former federal probationary employees surveyed more than 300 of their fired colleagues to assess their job ...

Many government workers being cut are those with fewer protections. They are relatively new in their current jobs, but often have years of experience. By Lydia DePillis In news about the Trump ...

A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting some temporary relief to a coalition of labor unions and organizations ...

Out of the agencies it analyzed, GAO found that during 2025 probationary employees separated at an average rate of 19%, ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that will enable the government to fire probationary employees more easily. Instead of automatically gaining full status in one or two ...

FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration outlined the roles of probationary employees amid Democrats and some media outlets portraying recent mass firings of federal employees as a gutting of staffers ...