A U.S. board that reviews the firings of federal employees on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to temporarily reinstate thousands of workers who lost their jobs as part of ...

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

A workers’ board is reinstating – at least temporarily – almost 6,000 fired probationary workers from the Department of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate more than 5,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, according to a ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board.

A judge reinstated Cathy Harris as Merit Systems Protection Board chair, ruling that Trump’s firing was unlawful. The case ...

President Donald Trump unlawfully removed a member of a federal office that protects government employees from partisan ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that a Democrat who served as the chair of a U.S. agency that hears appeals by federal government employees when they are fired or disciplined be ...

Because they are concerned about possible retaliation and a likely appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, the couple asked WTOP not to use their names for this story. The news came amid ...

Federal workers who lose their jobs can bring a challenge before the board, an independent three-member panel, seeking to be reinstated. That role could put it in a central spot as Trump moves ...

The Trump administration fired Cathy Harris as chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board last week with a one-sentence email informing her that she was “terminated, effective immediately.” ...