An independent federal board has directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate nearly 6,000 employees fired last ...

An appeals court has removed the head of a federal watchdog agency in the latest twist in a legal fight over Republican ...

Under the new order, the fired workers can return to their jobs for 45 days during the Office of Special Counsel's investigation.

The Office of Special Counsel applauded MSPB’s stay decision at USDA and urged all agencies to follow suit on reinstating fired probationary employees.

The fired employees were on probationary status, swept up in the administration’s push to rapidly reduce the size of the ...

The VA added staff quickly during the Biden administration as it staffed up to address increased coverage under the PACT Act, a law that expanded VA health care and benefits.

The Trump administration announced it's planning to fire thousands more employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs as part of the White House effort to dramatically downsize the federal workforce ...

These Agriculture Department employees must be allowed back to their jobs for 45 days, as the Office of Special Counsel ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate nearly 6,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, ...

A civil service protection board said the mass firings of probationary workers at the agency appeared to violate federal law.

A federal personnel board on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate a fired worker, as well as ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) on Wednesday ordered the Department of Agriculture to temporarily reinstate all of its nearly 6,000 probationary employees, who were fired by the Trump ...