Title 5 of the U.S. Code mandates that when a federal employee is reinstated following an improper adverse personnel action, ...

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has moved to reinstate at least 24,500 recently fired probationary workers following a pair of orders from federal judges last week that found the ...

After employees have completed their probation period, they gain more rights to appeal a termination to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Under those rules for due process, the agency must show ...

(The Hill) — A second federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from firing federal workers, issuing an order Thursday that probationary employees be reinstated weeks after their dismissal.

but some jobs have two-year probationary periods. The employees may be new to the federal workforce, but they also could have been recently promoted or shifted to a different agency. This story ...