Many government workers being cut are those with fewer protections. They are relatively new in their current jobs, but often have years of experience.

The Pentagon is reinstating fired probationary employees, but many are still waiting for instructions on returning to work, ...

A probationary employee is the same as: 1) PRIVATE: as an enlisted person in the army. 2) LIEUTENANT: as an officer in the military. 3) ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: as a teacher/researcher in higher ...

said the mass firings of probationary federal employees appear to be illegal because the termination letters don't cite specifics to each of the employees. On Wednesday the Merit Systems ...

Days after a Maryland federal judge ruled that terminated probationary workers must be temporarily reinstated, multiple ...