Probationary workers across multiple federal health agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services received virtually identical letters Saturday evening informing them they would be ...

A portion of a letter which was sent to thousands of probationary workers in the Department of Health and Human Services on Feb. 15, 2025, notifying them that they had been fired.CBS News ...

President Donald Trump's administration and the DOGE are offering to lay off federal employees, in hopes of cutting budgets.

“The probationary period is a continuation of the job application ... workers had been in the works since Trump’s first day in office, when the acting head of OPM sent a memo to all agencies ...

A probationary employee is often a recent hire to the agency or a long-serving employee who was moved or promoted into a new position. They are put on a "probationary" period that typically lasts ...

But hundreds of thousands of probationary employees could be affected. A probationary employee is a newly hired worker who is put on a "probationary" period — typically for one or two years ...