A federal judge in California ruled that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) lacks the power to terminate probationary employees who have less than a year of service.

The National Labor Relations Board last week accused Apple of trying to prevent employees from discussing pay equity and pressuring an engineer who attempted to circulate a survey about wages to quit.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., Christopher Cooper, told a union representing employees at the Treasury Department that it should have gone to the Federal Labor Relations Authority.