The order comes hours after a federal judge in California directed that the departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Treasury offer reinstatement to thousands of probationary employees.
March 14, 2025

A federal judge last night ordered that thousands of federal workers fired by the Trump administration be temporarily reinstated. Via NBCNews.com:

U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Maryland issued a temporary restraining order against dozens of agencies, departments and their leaderships across the federal government that had terminated workers as part of reduction-in-workforce efforts.

[...] The government has dismissed about 200,000 probationary employees — workers who are either recent hires or had taken new positions — since President Donald Trump took office in January.

The order comes hours after a federal judge in California directed that the departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Treasury offer reinstatement to the thousands of probationary employees who were terminated last month by the Trump administration.

BREAKING: Judge Alsup orders the VA to offer reinstatement to all fired probationary employees, saying their terminations were "unlawful" directive from OPM.

Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T16:20:56.461Z

🚨BREAKING: The Trump Administration must immediately offer reinstatement to thousands of probationary federal workers who were recently unlawfully fired, a federal judge ruled Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T18:21:13.107Z

NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to offer reinstatement to thousands of fired probationary employees at the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Agriculture, Energy, Interior and Veterans Affairs.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T16:38:50.181Z

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