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USDA ordered to temporarily reinstate thousands of fired employees
The firings of over 5,000 probationary employees at the Agriculture Department may have been unlawful, and the workers should be reinstated for at least the next 45 days, a federal civil service board ruled Wednesday.
Federal board orders USDA to reinstate 'numerous' fired probationary employees
A federal personnel board on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate a fired worker, as well as "numerous" other probationary employees who were fired Feb. 13 and later. The Merit Systems Protection Board issued the ruling at the request of the Office of Special Counsel,
Thousands of fired USDA employees to be temporarily reinstated following MSPB decision
The Office of Special Counsel applauded MSPB’s stay decision at USDA and urged all agencies to follow suit on reinstating fired probationary employees.
USDA employees fired en masse by Trump administration reinstated, workers’ board says
A workers’ board is reinstating – at least temporarily – almost 6,000 fired probationary workers from the Department of Agriculture, according to a newly issued order obtained by CNN.
MSPB orders temporary reinstatement of nearly 6,000 probationary workers at USDA
These Agriculture Department employees must be allowed back to their jobs for 45 days, as the Office of Special Counsel continues to investigate the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired, promoted or transferred federal employees.
US board reinstates thousands of USDA employees fired by Trump administration
A U.S. board that reviews the firings of federal employees on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to temporarily reinstate thousands of workers who lost their jobs as part of President Donald Trump's layoffs of the federal workforce.
Trump Administration Told to Reinstate Nearly 6,000 Agriculture Dept. Workers
The fired employees were on probationary status, swept up in the administration’s push to rapidly reduce the size of the federal work force in part by targeting those types of workers.
Federal board orders temporary reinstatement of thousands of USDA probationers
In response to the order, the federal investigator who requested the stay called on “all federal agencies to” rescind probationary terminations.
Federal board delays firings of 6,000 probationary USDA workers
A federal board has delayed the termination of roughly 6,000 USDA probationary employees purged in a mass firing by the new presidential administration, and ordered them to be restored to […]
Reinstatement of fired USDA employees ordered; local glacier center worker says no word yet from employer
An independent federal board on Wednesday ordered the temporary reinstatement of nearly 6,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture employees, including those with the U.S. Forest Service, who were fired last month as part of the Trump administration’s mass downsizing of the federal workforce.
Nearly 6,000 USDA workers fired by Trump ordered back to work for now
The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate nearly 6,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, according to a ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board.
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Daybreak March 6: Probationary employees at USDA get reprieve; FDA nominee to get hearing today
USDA probationary employees who were abruptly fired from their jobs last month have gotten a temporary reprieve. The chair of ...
CDC reinstates nearly 200 axed probationary employees
The fired CDC employees were alerted of their reinstatement via an email with the subject line, "Read this e-mail immediately." ...
'The rules … are not technicalities': Trump has fired nearly 6,000 USDA workers in violation of federal civil service laws, watchdog says — as he, too, fights to keep job
Hampton Dellinger, a booted-then-reinstated Biden ethics enforcer who is fighting to keep his job in federal court, has ...
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OPM alters memo about probationary employees but does not order mass firings reversed
The Office of Personnel Management has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to identify probationary employees ...