Judge expresses sympathy for fired federal workers but questions if reinstatement is proper remedy

A federal judge says he sympathizes with thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration, but he also voiced skepticism about whether reinstating them to their jobs ... Read More

Federal appeals court sides with Trump, clears way to fire thousands of federal workers

The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the lower ... Musk to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy and slash government spending, which has invited a series ... Read More

Appeals court rules Trump administration can fire thousands of probationary federal workers

The Trump administration was given the green light to fire thousands of federal workers by ... the fired workers. The appeals court order overturned Bredar’s injunction. The states suing the ... Read More

Appeals court halts rehiring of 24,000 federal workers

A federal appeals court Wednesday ... for ‘performance’ or other individualized reasons. On the record before the Court, this isn’t true,” U.S. District Judge James Bredar wrote in ... Read More

Appeals court rules Trump can fire probationary federal workers once again

In a win for President Trump, a panel of judges on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ... Protect Board, a federal agency that considers employees' workplace claims. It's unclear how quickly ... Read More