Federal agencies fired nearly 25,000 newer workers, officials said in court filings. It’s the first time many of them have provided official termination numbers.
Eighteen agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, started terminating workers after President Donald Trump took office, and the Office of Personnel Management directed officials to fire probationary workers who were not critical to agency missions. Many did not disclose the number of workers that were terminated.
Federal judges on March 13 ordered them to reinstate terminated workers, finding that the government likely violated personnel rules because no advance notice was provided before the mass layoffs.
U.S. District Judge James Bredar, one of the judges, said the reinstatements must happen before March 17 and directed officials to file a status report documenting how they’ve complied with his order....
