At least 5,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are set to be temporarily rehired amid claims their terminations were unlawful. The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has ordered the USDA to temporarily reinstate over 5,000 employees dismissed since February 13.
The stay issued by MSPB, a quasi-judicial agency that acts as an adjudicative body for federal employee grievances, mandates that the affected employees return to their positions for 45 days, pending further investigation.
These reinstatements involve probationary employees who received standardized termination notices citing performance issues and claiming their continued employment would not benefit the public interest. Many of those dismissed fall under the Trump administration’s broader dismissal of probationary employees across federal agencies, targeting those in their early service years.
The decision follows a petition from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), now investigating the probationary employee terminations. The OSC handles allegations of federal employment misconduct.
The reversal runs counter to the agenda of President Donald J. Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is seeking to streamline the U.S. bureaucracy. According to tech mogul Elon Musk who fronts DOGE, the department has already saved taxpayers billions of dollars.
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