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An independent government agency that reviews personnel actions in the has ordered 6 government employees to be temporarily reinstated after the admin carried out of probationary employees earlier this month. The independent agency, the Systems Protection Board, ruled that the unspecificed involved had violated rights in the .


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The order appeared limited to the 6 in the case, but offered a measure of hope for thousands of government workers seeking to be reinstated. Lawyers for the workers said in a statement that they would now work to expand the order “to cover all probationary federal employees who were unlawfully terminated.” The Systems Protection Board ordered that the employees be reinstated for 45 days while the Office of investigates their cases.

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A government lawyer whose dismissal by has been stalled by the courts announced on Monday that his office would seek to pause the mass of some probationary .

The lawyer, Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of , a government agency that protects , said his office had determined that the firings might violate the .


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Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, said the decision to fire probationary employees en masse appeared “contrary to a reasonable reading of the law.”
The New York Times · Government Watchdog Moves to Protect Probationary Federal WorkersBy Abbie VanSickle

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6 fired federal workers will be temporarily reinstated after a decision this week by the Systems Protection Board, the first step toward what lawyers representing fired employees hope will be the restoration of thousands of jobs cut by the admin, & .

The board, an independent agency that considers appeals from about actions, announced its decision late Tues.

It will remain in effect through April 10 so that the Office of can continue investigating the complaints. The 6 employees come from 6 different .

“I find that there are reasonable grounds to believe that each of the 6 agencies engaged in a prohibited personnel practice,” Raymond A. Limon, a member of the board, wrote in his order.

The decision ultimately could apply more broadly to thousands of other .