The amount of separations is beyond Kupor’s previously shared target of reducing the federal workforce by 300,000 this year.

The national hiring rate has stalled at 3.2%, levels not seen in two decades. Former federal workers who took a deferred ...

If there’s anything that everyone anywhere close to the federal hiring process agrees about, it’s that the system is a mess, for applicants and agency officials alike. But the hiring plan the Trump ...

The lawsuit comes as OPM closes in on a final rule for “Schedule Policy/Career,” an effort that would make tens of thousands of federal employees at-will.

The Fed’s latest Beige Book points to weaker hiring, softer consumer spending, and moderate price pressures as policymakers ...

The U.S. economy continues to expand but companies have sharply slowed hiring, and these mixed signals are concerning the ...

The Interior Department will ask job applicants to answer several essay questions inked by the Trump administration that have been criticized as a litmus test for loyalty to the president’s agenda, ...

A bipartisan Senate deal ends the longest government shutdown, guaranteeing back pay and job security for over a million federal workers, including those in states like Virginia.

The American job market is sending mixed signals: official data still shows relatively low unemployment and steady paychecks, ...

This story has been updated at 1:30 p.m. ET. A trio of federal employee unions on Thursday sued the Office of Personnel Management seeking to excise essay questions recently added to most federal job ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump ordered an extension of his freeze on hiring rank-and-file federal workers through Oct. 15, to lock in savings from layoffs and deferred retirements. Trump has ...