The order reclassified the workers to at-will employees, meaning the government can now terminate them without offering a reason.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday making it easier to fire 8,000 of some of the best-paid government workers, part of a broader effort to…

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will make it easier to dismiss thousands of senior federal employees.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that wipes away civil service protections from roughly 8,000 high-level federal workers by making them at-will…

President Trump signed an executive order simplifying the dismissal process for 8,000 senior federal employees earning up to $200,000 annually and influencing government policy.

Trump signs order expanding authority to remove senior policy-influencing federal employees as workforce reforms continue.

About 97% of reclassified positions are among the highest-ranking career positions such as directors, chiefs of staff and senior advisers.

The order reclassified the workers to at-will employees, meaning the government can now terminate them without offering a reason.

Agencies have just one week to reclassify thousands of federal workers in purportedly policy-related roles into the new Schedule Policy/Career, stripping them of most civil…