The White House is exploiting, and sometimes outright ignoring, the arcane laws, rules and regulations that have long ...

There will be federal employees whom he replaces as part of the usual political turnover, and others whom he will fire as retribution for being disloyal. But when it comes to firing most federal ...

From the point of view of federal employees looking down the barrel of potential firings and radical new demands for political loyalty, the buyout may look tempting. But it could be a bad bet on a ...

Agencies are gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the blizzard of new policies as workers frantically try to ...

It replaces Schedule F, an order Trump signed late in his first term that sought to reclassify thousands of federal employees and make them political appointees without the same job security ...

A federal employee union ... Trump creating a new class of federal employee — allowing those working on policy to be swiftly hired and fired like political appointees. The Monday order reignites ...

President Donald Trump signed an order within hours of taking office on Monday to make it easier to fire thousands of federal ...

The largest union representing federal employees sued the Trump administration ... suggested Trump's order is about expanding his political control over the federal workforce.