The firings of over 5,000 probationary employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture may have been unlawful, and the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has to rehire over 5,000 employees who were abruptly laid off as part of President Donald ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

The Office of Special Counsel applauded MSPB’s stay decision at USDA and urged all agencies to follow suit on reinstating fired probationary employees.