I found this lurking quietly in several media pieces week’s ago….
Some agencies and departments HAVE done rehiring and back to work….
Some have employee’s still on standby….
Some like the FAA for controllers, are offering incentives to get more hires…
President Donald Trump’s administration says it is moving to reinstate more than 24,000 probationary workers it fired as part of its efforts to slash the size of the federal workforce, court documents filed Monday show.
Officials at 18 departments and agencies submitted signed declarations detailing their teams’ efforts to rehire the fired workers in order to comply with court orders. Last week two federal judgesordered the administration to temporarily reinstate thousands of probationary workers who were fired.
The documents are the first full accounting of how many people lost their jobs in the Trump administration’s mass firings of probationary workers, who have typically held their positions for less than two years and don’t have full civil service protections.
But many of the employees being reinstated won’t be getting right back to work; instead, they’ll be placed on administrative leave, including at the Education Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, two agencies that have been targeted for dismantling, and a number of other major federal departments.
Several of the officials said in the filings that reinstating employees to “full duty status would impose substantial burdens” on their departments or agencies, noting that the employees would need to be onboarded again, complete training and paperwork, and receive applicable security clearances and government equipment.
Officials also said that while their departments and agencies were working to reinstate probationary employees, “an appellate ruling could reverse the district court’s order shortly after terminated employees have been reinstated.”….
…Update….
Some rehires have happened …Some are STILL ON HOLD in 6 of the 18 departments involved…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to halt a lower court order that required six federal agencies to rehire more than 16,000 probationary workers who had been fired.
The high court granted a request for emergency relief from the Trump administration, which sought to move forward with its efforts to drastically scale back the size of the federal government as legal proceedings continue. In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court said the injunction issued by the district court in mid-March “was based solely on the allegations of the nine non-profit-organization plaintiffs in this case. But under established law, those allegations are presently insufficient to support the organizations'” legal right to sue, a concept known as standing.
Its stay will remain in place will litigation plays out. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have denied the Justice Department’s request for relief.
Probationary workers, generally those who were still in one or two-year trial periods, were the early targets of mass firings that are part of President Trump’s government-cutting initiative. Many have been left in limbo since mid-February, when they were fired and then had their employment restored weeks later as a result of court orders.
Labor unions and nonprofit groups that brought the lawsuit challenging the firings vowed to continue fighting for probationary workers. ….
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Human resources officials at the half-a-dozen agencies told the court that they had rehired the fired employees and placed them on administrative leave before returning them to full-duty status….
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The judge then granted a preliminary injunction in early April, which applies to probationary workers at 20 agencies who live or work in the states involved in the lawsuit.
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