The IRS will pause bringing back its probationary employees after a court ruling this week that allowed Trump administration firings at agencies, according to an email seen by Bloomberg Tax.
The roughly 7,315 probationary workers who were first fired in February will remain on administrative leave unless they are told otherwise, the email said. They were told earlier this month that they’d return to the office April 14, the day before the end of the busy tax season.
Some of the employees have received an email saying they’ve been “identified as a probationary employee in a key IRS service, ...