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 service protections.

Defense, State, DHS positions among those converted to at-will jobs.

Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees.

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…

President Trump has stripped job protections from thousands of federal workers.

A federal employee union condemned the move, arguing it strips career workers of longstanding protections against political retaliation.