{"id":116827,"date":"2025-03-07T02:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T02:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/trump-administration-told-to-reinstate-nearly-6000-usda-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T02:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T02:50:23","slug":"trump-administration-told-to-reinstate-nearly-6000-usda-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=116827","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Told to Reinstate Nearly 6,000 USDA Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Thousands of Agriculture Department employees who were fired last month must be reinstated in their old positions for at least 45 days, a board that handles federal worker disputes ordered on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The fired employees were on probationary status and relatively new in their positions, swept up in the Trump administration\u2019s push to rapidly reduce the size of the federal work force in part by targeting those types of workers. Probationary employees have fewer Civil Service protections than other government workers who have been in their jobs longer, and have been seen by President Trump and Elon Musk, the tech billionaire leading the downsizing effort, as the easiest to fire.<\/p>\n

Even so, there are rules that agencies must follow when firing probationary employees, including a requirement that managers document details when alleging poor performance.<\/p>\n

Cathy Harris, the chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board, the administrative body where employees can appeal adverse actions, said in her order on Wednesday that she had \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to believe that agencies that had fired probationary workers violated a law<\/a> that dictates proper personnel practices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n