The federal civil service system is designed to ensure merit-based hiring and firing, and protects employees from arbitrary ...

Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” deputies have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that ...

As the Center for American Progress has noted, “the federal government has hired Black Americans at higher rates than the private sector going back a century or more.” ...

"The White House creating a hitlist of 'disloyal' federal employees represents a dangerous escalation of politically ...

President Trump's move to eliminate civil service protections for a wide number of federal employees was challenged Tuesday ...

Musk tried a similar scheme after his takeover of Twitter. What could go wrong with applying it to millions of federal ...

The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management sent a memo of frequently asked questions encouraging civil servants to go on vacation and even take a second job, which in some instances is ...

Trump executive order that reclassifies career civil servants risks politicizing thousands of government jobs, critics say.

A flurry of executive orders signed shortly after Donald Trump took office will have implications for the government workforce.

New guidance gives federal agencies 90 days to do a preliminary review of jobs that are "policy-determining, policy-making, ...

Every time a new administration takes office, the federal civil service system faces scrutiny ... employees are not at all unique in the United States; in fact, similar protections are enjoyed ...

Here’s what we know about the deferred resignation program offered to federal employees by the Trump administration.