Under a newly proposed rule, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) would take over authority to decide appeals by probationary federal employees who allege unfair termination, stripping that power from an independent hiring agency.  […]

A Federal appeals court gave the Trump administration the green light today to fire thousands of Federal probationary workers by overturning a lower court’s order that had required them to be reinstated.  […]

Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), refused to testify before a Federal judge in a case determining OPM’s involvement in the firing of Federal probationary employees. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is reinstating most of the probationary employees that it laid off while following directions from the Trump administration to cut those employees from its workforce.    […]