Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge’s order to rehire probationary federal workers

Thousands of laid off IRS workers called back a day before tax filing deadline

With less than two weeks until the April 15 tax filing deadline in the U.S., the Internal Revenue Service has been ordered to hire back probationary employees, according to reports.

America’s IRS needs sacked workers back for tax season

After a court ordered the Internal Revenue Service to rehire some 7,000 probationary workers, the employees were put on administrative leave, kept on the federal payroll, but not back at work.

Unions urge Supreme Court to uphold reinstatement of 16,000 fired federal workers

A coalition of federal employee unions urged the Supreme Court Thursday not to interfere with a federal judge’s sweeping order reinstating more than 16,000 probationary federal employees fired earlier this year under a Trump administration workforce directive. In a 40-page…

Unions urge Supreme Court to uphold reinstatement of 16,000 fired feds

A coalition of federal employee unions urged the Supreme Court Thursday not to interfere with a federal judge’s sweeping order reinstating more than 16,000 probationary federal employees fired earlier this year under a Trump administration workforce directive. In a 40-page filing Thursday, the groups led by the American Federation of Government Employees said President Donald Trump’s administration has exaggerated the burden of reemploying worke…

Two tribal colleges have been allowed to rehire staff that had been cut by the federal government

After weeks of uncertainty, two tribal colleges have been told they can hire back all employees who were laid off as part of the Trump administration’s deep cuts across the federal workforce in February, part of a judge’s order restoring some federal employees whose positions were terminated.Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, widely known as SIPI, in New Mexico lost about 70 employees in mi…

Supreme Court asked to block mass reinstatement of federal workers

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to halt a federal judge’s sweeping injunction that orders the reinstatement of more than 16,000 probationary federal employees across six major agencies. The emergency application follows a March 13 ruling…