President Trump issued an executive order Monday that could strip thousands of civil servants of their employment protections. Why it matters: The order — essentially a reinstatement of Schedule F — makes it easier to fire federal employees considered disloyal to the administration.

A federal employee union has sued over an executive order from President Trump creating a new class of federal employee — allowing those working on policy to be swiftly hired and fired like political appointees.

President Donald Trump signed an order within hours of taking office on Monday to make it easier to fire thousands of federal agency employees and replace them with political loyalists. The order, which is largely identical to one Trump issued late in his first term,

But, about 26% of federal employees are unionized and many are covered by bargaining agreements that allow for remote work or hybrid arrangements. The Trump administration will ha

President Donald Trump has ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for civil servants, the first salvoes in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday that could effectively ban federal workers from working remotely. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email on Monday night.