A U.S. civil service board judge has ruled that hundreds of U.S. Department of Interior employees who were fired and then ...

In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire ...

The Biden administration has finalised a new set of regulations to prevent a future president from initiating a wholesale purge of the US civil service along the ...

The American civil service was established in 1883 to form a merit based civil service corps to replace the “spoil system” in which all federal jobs were handed out as political favors.

The average civil service employee is middle-aged, with a bachelor’s degree or higher. The typical civil service exam can include 170 questions and take three hours. A grade below 70 fails.

The US civil service is in chaos as it scrambles to adjust to the new administration’s demands. Two groups of FBI agents sued the justice department over plans to collect information on ...

In 1883, Congress created the United States Civil Service Commission to replace the Spoils System with merit hiring and use professional qualification tests to determine job readiness.

The U.S. government has long shown a hiring preference for veterans. But because of the demographics of the U.S. military, this has limited the federal workforce’s diversity.

If the current celebrations in Washington, D.C.—like Public Service Recognition Week and the Partnership for Public Service’s annual Sammies awards—have reminded us of anything, it’s that ...

New US civil service rules look to prevent a future Trump purge of federal workers. The new rules are meant to keep a future president from implementing Donald Trump’s ‘Schedule F’ rule .