Thousands of Federal Staff to Lose Jobs Again Due to Ruling (1)

Thousands of the federal employees once fired by the Trump administration are expected to lose their jobs a second time after a judge narrowed his earlier ruling that had demanded a nationwide rehiring of probationary workers.

Judge James Bredar of the US District Court for the District of Maryland said in a late Tuesday order that 20 federal agencies must reinstate their probationary workers. But they shouldn’t rehire those that live or work outside of Washington, D.C., or one of the 19 states that challenged the workforce cuts through the litigation.

Bredar also ordered the government to halt any further ...