July 9, 2025 - [1/2]Demonstrators protest firings of federal workers in the Department of Education in Atlanta, Georgia, April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Megan Varner Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab · The plaintiffs had warned in court filings that Trump's plans, if allowed to proceed, would result in hundreds of thousands of layoffs.

2 weeks ago - About 300,000 United States federal civil service layoffs have been announced by the second Trump administration, almost all of them attributed to the Department of Government Efficiency. On August 26, 2025, the Partnership for Public Service said just under 200,000 federal workers had already ...

2 days ago - Shortly after President Donald Trump took office in January, the Elon Musk-led DOGE office began cutting thousands of federal workers across various agencies, citing a need for reduced spending and less bureaucracy.

November 21, 2025 - For reference, 115,900 workers left the federal government in all of 2023. The number is likely to be in that range in 2024 and could be exceeded in 2025, although it will be hard to differentiate normal turnover from deferred resignations.

November 26, 2025 - 12 states that “any reduction in force proposed, noticed, initiated, executed, implemented, or otherwise taken by an Executive Agency between October 1, 2025, and the date of enactment, shall have no force or effect.”

November 21, 2025 - The proposed rule draft, which will be subject to a 60-day public comment period once it has been published in the Federal Register, describes the current system for laying off federal employees as “outdated,” failing to keep pace with workplace trends.

2 weeks ago - The law that ended the recent government shutdown included provisions to reverse the terminations of some 4,000 workers and halt any further layoffs — a significant win for Democrats.

November 21, 2025 - It does not mention the CR as a reason for the pause, and explicitly states that ED “has not rescinded the RIF notices to OCR employees for the March 2025 RIF.” · Despite the agency stating its position in a court filing, two OCR workers told FedScoop they had not received any information from the agency as of Friday on whether their layoffs are protected under the shutdown deal.

October 28, 2025 - October 1, 2025: Federal government shutdown goes into effect, as the Congress is unable to reach a short-term spending deal to keep the government funded. October 10, 2025: The Trump administration sends layoff notices to thousands of federal ...

July 16, 2025 - In an email obtained by Federal ... hereby notified that you are officially separated from HHS at the close of business on July 14, 2025,” the email states....

5 days ago - For the first half of 2025, the labor market was, in the words of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a “low hire, low fire” environment, with minimal job cut announcements preventing sluggish openings from translating into a more universally negative employment situation. But the final months of the year saw many of America’s largest employers roll out waves of large-scale layoffs, pushing total job cuts to levels rarely seen this century outside of Covid and the financial crisis.

July 13, 2025 - That includes layoffs of 1,353 employees — 1,107 in civil service and 246 in foreign service.

1 week ago - Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, and Friday, December 26, 2025, the day before and the day following Christmas ...

July 11, 2025 - By Nandita BoseJuly 11, 20252:11 PM UTCUpdated July 11, 2025 · A general view of the White House in Washington, U.S., August 27, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab · Summary · White House moves swiftly to implement mass federal layoffs ·

November 22, 2025 - The Justice Department said in court filings Friday that each of the more than 3,600 federal workers who were laid off during the government shutdown had been formally notified that they have their jobs back, part of the deal to reopen the ...

November 17, 2025 - About two-thirds of respondents say they have concerns about consequences of cuts to each of the Department of Defense, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. These results come from an online survey of 1,000 Americans conducted by the Partnership from Sept. 12-15, 2025, using a panel maintained by Prodege.

3 weeks ago - Daniel Zhao, chief economist for ... citing federal data from the JOLTS survey that roughly 1.7 million people had been laid off over the same period. “The interesting thing that we saw in our research is that the shape of these layoffs is ...

July 14, 2025 - In total, the department expects nearly 3,000 employees will leave as part of a major reorganization — approximately 15% of its total workforce. About 1,600 employees have already agreed to leave the agency through voluntary incentives, including ...

May 2, 2025 - [10] Rebecca Pifer, “Health department layoffs may be illegal, experts say,” BioPharma Dive, April 15, 2025, https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/hhs-layoffs-legal-rif-kennedy-trump/745401/. [11] Lena H. Sun et al., “Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts,” Washington Post, April 16, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/16/hhs-budget-cut-trump/. The HHS “passback” referred to is available at https://ffis.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Hhs_Reorganization_Proposal_Draft.pdf. [12] Elena Shao and Ashley Wu, “The Federal Work Force Cuts So Far, Agency by Agency,” New York Times, April 14, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/us/politics/trump-doge-federal-job-cuts.html.

July 10, 2025 - Federal agencies across government can resume laying off their employees en masse after the Supreme Court reversed a court order that barred those reductions, with several agencies likely to move swiftly to start cutting staff.