An independent government agency that reviews personnel actions in the #FederalWorkForce has ordered 6 government employees to be temporarily reinstated after the #Trump admin carried out #MassFirings of probationary employees earlier this month. The independent agency, the #Merit Systems Protection Board, ruled that the unspecificed #FederalAgencies involved had violated #DueProcess rights in the #firings.
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/25/us/president-trump-news/c3058066-3cce-51a8-b248-e94316acea91?smid=url-share
The order appeared limited to the 6 #FederalWorkers 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 #Merit Systems Protection Board ordered that the employees be reinstated for 45 days while the Office of #SpecialCounsel investigates their cases.
A government #watchdog lawyer whose dismissal by #Trump has been stalled by the courts announced on Monday that his office would seek to pause the mass #firings of some probationary #FederalWorkers.
The lawyer, Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of #SpecialCounsel, a government agency that protects #WhistleBlowers, said his office had determined that the firings might violate the #law.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/politics/special-counsel-fired-federal-workers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=85169D7B-0680-4A58-AC03-1450A9607439
6 fired federal workers will be temporarily reinstated after a decision this week by the #Merit Systems Protection Board, the first step toward what lawyers representing fired employees hope will be the restoration of thousands of jobs cut by the #Trump admin, #ElonMusk & #DOGE.
The board, an independent agency that considers appeals from #FederalWorkers about #employment actions, announced its decision late Tues.
It will remain in effect through April 10 so that the Office of #SpecialCounsel can continue investigating the complaints. The 6 employees come from 6 different #FederalAgencies.
“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 #FederalWorkers.