The agency had paused filing Hatch Act complaints against such individuals pending a Merit Systems Protection Board decision ...

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Following a legal challenge, the Merit Systems Protection Board denied the Trump administration's attempts to fire 6000 USDA ...

Since the wave of U.S. government layoffs began, the independent agency that adjudicates a federal worker’s challenge of their dismissal has seen its case load skyrocket. The U.S. Merit Systems ...

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President Donald Trump unlawfully removed a member of a federal office that protects government employees from partisan interference, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Rudolph ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unlawfully fired the chairwoman of a regulatory board charged with overseeing employment complaints from federal workers and whistleblowers, a judge ruled Tuesday.

The independent federal Merit Systems Protection Board Tuesday stayed the firing of six federal workers for 45 days, ruling they must get their jobs back at least through April 10. Federal workers and ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order related to drug prices, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) (CN) — ...

Thousands of federal workers fired in recent days by the Trump administration may be able to use an appeals process to get reinstated in their jobs — and potentially receive back pay. But the process ...

WASHINGTON — A government watchdog wants more than 5,000 probationary employees to be reinstated at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the latest example of resistance to President Donald Trump 's ...

There’s a quorum again on the board that hears appeals of firings and suspensions of federal employees after a majority of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated an earlier ...