The hiring push is unfolding under new rules designed to give the White House greater influence over the government’s 2 million-person civilian workforce.

Unions say that by weakening seniority protections, the proposal would pave the way for politically motivated firings.

The union for federal workers has argued the proposed changes would remove protections that are in place to prevent ...

President Donald Trump‘s push to tighten control over the federal workforce will take shape in coming weeks, allowing ...

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is planning to make it easier to discipline—and potentially fire—career officials in senior positions across the government, a move that would affect roughly 50,000 ...

A commuter near the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station in Washington, DC, in October. - Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File In its latest effort to weaken the federal workforce, the Trump ...

Unions representing federal workers on Wednesday renewed their bid to block President Donald Trump from stripping tens of thousands ​of government employees of job protections, making them easier to ...

The Trump administration has fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees who maintain and clean parks, educate visitors and perform other functions as part of its broad-based effort ...

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is trying to make it harder for fired federal employees to get their jobs back, according to a government plan released on Monday, by limiting their right to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A commuter near the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station in Washington, DC, in October. - Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File In ...

(CNN) — In its latest effort to weaken the federal workforce, the Trump administration issued a rule on Thursday that would shift an estimated 50,000 senior career staffers into a new category that ...