Federal employees are finding openings to overturn Trump administration terminations after a judge questioned the legality of the government’s firing memos and an independent board ordered some agencies to temporarily reinstate several workers.
A US judge in California on Thursday paused some terminations of federal workers and said the Office of Personnel Management’s directive to fire new hires known as probationary employees “is illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.”
The Merit Systems Protection Board, which mediates federal-sector employment disputes, on Tuesday ordered agencies to return six terminated probationary employees to their jobs for 45 days while the Office of the ...
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