The policy change makes it easier for the president to discipline or remove up to 50,000 employees, another push in the administration’s campaign to reshape the federal work force.

The Trump administration last week proposed new rules that would strip newly hired federal employees of their access to the Merit Systems Protection Board and further erode the grounds upon which they ...

The chair of a quiet government agency secured the re-employment of nearly 6,000 fired federal workers for the next month and a half on Wednesday, just a day after her own firing was ruled illegal by ...