14 March 2025 - Judge orders the Trump administration to reinstate fired government employees
Judge orders Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired employees at VA, Defense Department and other agencies
Devan Cole (CNN, 14/03/2024)
A federal judge has ordered half a dozen federal agencies to “immediately” reinstate probationary employees fired last month as part of the Trump administration’s effort to rapidly shrink the federal workforce, calling the effort a “sham.”
Second judge orders thousands of probationary employees fired by Trump to be reinstated
Gary Grumbach and Zoë Richards (NBC News, 14/03/2025)
A federal judge Thursday night ordered that thousands of federal workers fired by the Trump administration be temporarily reinstated.
Trump's mass federal workforce cuts: What has happened so far
Sarah D. Wire (USA Today, 13/03/2025)
President Donald Trump's mass firings of permanent federal employees have already begun and are expected to accelerate over the next few weeks with tens of thousands more employees terminated. But the layoffs didn't come out of nowhere.
Explainer: Are Trump's mass firings of federal workers legal?
Jack Queen and Daniel Wiessner (Reuters, 14/02/2025)
President Donald Trump has moved to dramatically shrink the size of the federal workforce and mass terminations have already begun at several U.S. government agencies. But a tangled web of laws and regulations around hiring and firing government employees could mire Trump's efforts in lawsuits and delays.
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