MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The federal government is the largest employer in the U.S., with just over 3 million civilian civil service workers.

Federal agencies are now required to protect religious expression in the workplace, marking one of the most sweeping moves in ...

Trump also fired Hampton Dellinger, who until recently served as the special counsel of the United States, a role that investigates alleged violations of federal civil service protections and ...

Civil servants swear an oath to the Constitution, and are required to apply the laws of the United States as enacted by Congress. Their salaries are paid by all U.S. taxpayers.

Three federal civil service members, including a former Tampa federal prosecutor filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump ...

The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential government functions will be politicized.

This idea that discrimination could occur without deliberate intent was revolutionary. The federal government abolished its main civil-service exam because of discrimination lawsuits.