USDA ordered to reinstate nearly 6000 fired workers
Sunday, March 9, 2025 - 16:54
in Health & Medicine
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) were among the first to receive termination notices last month as President Donald Trump’s administration moved to fire tens of thousands of probationary employees . Now, those workers could soon return to their jobs—at least temporarily—after an independent federal board issued a 45-day stay to their termination, finding “reasonable grounds” to believe that USDA fired them illegally. The turn of events follows similar developments for workers at other agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the reinstatements were forced by different mechanisms and are subject to different...