Fired Federal Staff Weigh Returning to Work as More Cuts Loom

Tens of thousands of federal employees fired by 19 government agencies will now have to decide whether to return to their jobs after federal judges and an independent panel ordered the Trump administration to reinstate them.

Rulings from federal courts in California and Maryland this week cover the government’s newest employees, known as probationary workers, fired under President Donald Trump’s push to trim the federal workforce. The administration terminated more than 34,000 of them since Jan. 20, according to Bloomberg Law’s analysis.

“I hope the effort to have those unlawful firings reversed immediately will continue in every appropriate way,” said ...