A U.S. board that reviews the firings of federal employees on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...

These Agriculture Department employees must be allowed back to their jobs for 45 days, as the Office of Special Counsel ...

The decision is a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to drastically and quickly shrink the federal bureaucracy.

A federal personnel board on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate a fired worker, as well as ...

A workers’ board is reinstating – at least temporarily – almost 6,000 fired probationary workers from the Department of ...

The fired employees were on probationary status, swept up in the administration’s push to rapidly reduce the size of the ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to temporarily reinstate all probationary employees fired by the Trump administration. The ...

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.

Far-reaching federal budget cuts have put a longstanding California grape breeding program in jeopardy after key members of ...

A civil service protection board said the mass firings of probationary workers at the agency appeared to violate federal law.

The stay applies to all fired Agriculture probationers who were told their employment wasn’t in “the public interest” based ...

Under the new order, the fired workers can return to their jobs for 45 days during the Office of Special Counsel's investigation.