An independent federal board has directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate nearly 6,000 employees fired last ...

A U.S. board that reviews the firings of federal employees on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...

The fired employees were on probationary status, swept up in the administration’s push to rapidly reduce the size of the ...

The decision is a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to drastically and quickly shrink the federal bureaucracy.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate nearly 6,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, ...

These Agriculture Department employees must be allowed back to their jobs for 45 days, as the Office of Special Counsel ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has to rehire over 5,000 employees who were abruptly laid off as part of President Donald Trump's attempts to unilaterally cut down the size of the federal ...

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 more than 5,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, ...

Under the new order, the fired workers can return to their jobs for 45 days during the Office of Special Counsel's investigation.

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

A civil service protection board said the mass firings of probationary workers at the agency appeared to violate federal law.