The OPM on February 13 ordered agencies to terminate all probationary employees, changing course on an earlier order that said only to do so with those with a poor performance.

Agency heads may make exceptions, and military personnel, U.S. Postal Service employees, people working in immigration enforcement, national security and thousands of Veterans Affairs employees in ...

A number of recent issues have caused the increase in OPM disability retirement applications. Many federal employees have previously worked under Reasonable Accommodations (RA), which allowed ...

U.S. officials violated federal privacy law and flouted cybersecurity protocol in sharing Office of Personnel Management ... District of New York concluded that federal worker and union plaintiffs had ...

Speaking generally of the Trump administration’s RIF plans, Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, said he expects significant legal challenges to agency actions.

Federal employee unions and the Trump administration are in a fierce battle over the government's buyout offer, with employees facing a Feb. 6 deadline to accept an offer some say is illegal.

Legal challenges: In April, the Supreme Court halted an order by a lower-court judge requiring the Trump administration to rehire about 16,000 fired probationary employees.

A coalition of labor unions, nonprofits and local governments including Chicago, Baltimore and Harris County, Texas, has mounted the broadest legal challenge yet to President Trump's massive ...

America First Legal challenges a 1981 consent decree in federal court, aiming to restore merit-based hiring and end race-based practices in government jobs.

Protesters rally outside of the headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images North America hide caption ...