Foreign service officers face new hiring criteria as State Department removes DEI requirements and adds "fidelity" as a core ...

The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a notice sent to ...

Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the changes were needed and called the outrage overblown.

No State Department official publicly said when the first notices for the planned layoffs would be sent, but the widespread ...

The department says the cuts, part of a reorganization that will see 3,000 total personnel reductions, will slash redundancy and walk back growth over the last 25 years.

The changes to the hiring process at the State Department are expected to take place beginning with the June 2022 Foreign Service Officer (FSOT) test takers, the agency said in a statement Tuesday.

Monopoly and privilege fiercely resist change. State’s current hiring system also serves to perpetuate the department’s political biases, wherein senior diplomats recruit new officers who are ...

The State Department formally lifted its hiring freeze on Tuesday, ending a moratorium that has been in place for 16 months. Secretary Mike Pompeo announced the end of the freeze in a message to ...

In 2002, the State Department under President George W. Bush enacted its first climate change policy, with the aim of working to reduce the intensity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by ...