Pentagon says it will cut 5,400 probationary workers starting next week
The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.
Pentagon to fire 5,400 probationary workers, institute hiring freeze
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of ...
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DoD to fire 5,400 probationary employees next week, with hiring freeze to follow
"Those who we need, who are the best and brightest, are going to stay. Those who are under performers — won't," said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Experienced workers, not just rookies, get cut as Trump slashes probationary employees
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How Trump's NIH layoffs upended one probationary staffer's life: "We are important and we do important work"
Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of ...
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Pentagon expects to fire more than 5,000 civilian probationary employees starting next week
The first firings of Defense Department civilian probationary employees are expected to start next week, with about 5,400 set ...
DOGE is getting lists of the military's probationary workers from the Pentagon
U.S. officials say Department of Government Efficiency staffers were at the Pentagon on Tuesday and receiving lists of the ...
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Governmentwide firings ‘devastating’ to probationary federal employees
The National Science Foundation fired 168 federal employees, marking one of many agencies who fired probationary feds at the ...
US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says
National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...