The Energy Department, along with EPA and NOAA, hired back many probationary employees who had been laid off in a round of cuts last month.
The step taken Monday is being done to comply with recent court rulings that held the workers’ firings were illegally carried out.
These employees aren’t being put back to work, but placed on paid administrative leave while court cases play out.
It’s unclear what the long-term status of these employees will be given that legal wrangling over the layoffs continues in the federal courts.
It’s unclear what the long-term status of these employees will be given that legal wrangling over the layoffs continues in the federal courts.
Further cuts are likely as agencies’ pursue reductions in force (RIF) to cut as many as 20% to 50% of their workforces in a bid to shrink to the size of the federal bureaucracy.
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