A lieutenant, a sergeant and two officers in the LAPD's Recruiting Employment Division have been assigned to home during the ...

As layoff notices were sent out to agencies, federal employees were left reeling ... Department’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, said he had accepted the buyout because he knew that ...

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A male protective services worker ... January 23 with one count of common assault. Police confirmed at that time that he had been suspended from service. At Mr Hong’s court mention on Thursday ...

The Department of Education sent a “Dear Colleague” letter Friday threatening the federal funding of any academic institution that considers race in most aspects of student life. The letter ...

THIS VIRTUAL TOWN HALL HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY, ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FREEZE ON FEDERAL FUNDS. BUT MOST OF ALL, WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH FEDERAL WORKERS.

Federal workers in a probationary period typically have less than one year on the job and have not yet gained civil service protection. Federal workers who received termination notices on Thursday ...

That led to the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, which created a merit-based system for hiring federal employees. In 1978, Congress passed the Civil Service Reform Act, to shield the merit ...

Employees who have probationary status have typically been with the federal government for only one or two years — before all their civil service protections have kicked in. "The probationary ...

The U.S. has more than 2.4 million federal workers, excluding those who work for the U.S. Postal Service, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (As a self-funded agency ...

“It’s creating a lawless environment in the federal government,” said Max Stier, president and chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan group that advocates for a ...