The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate nearly 6,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, ...

A U.S. board that reviews the firings of federal employees on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to temporarily reinstate thousands of workers who lost their jobs as part of ...

A workers’ board is reinstating – at least temporarily – almost 6,000 fired probationary workers from the Department of ...

Cathy Harris, a member of the U.S. Merit System Protection Board, in a written order blocked the USDA from firing probationary employees, who typically have less than one year of service, for 45 days ...

A judge reinstated Cathy Harris as Merit Systems Protection Board chair, ruling that Trump’s firing was unlawful. The case ...

President Donald Trump unlawfully removed a member of a federal office that protects government employees from partisan ...

Cathy Harris, who headed up the Merit Systems Protection Board, or MSPB, received an email from the Trump administration last Monday saying she was being removed from her position. Harris, a ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that a Democrat who served as the chair of a U.S. agency that hears appeals by federal government employees when they are fired or disciplined be ...

Because they are concerned about possible retaliation and a likely appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, the couple asked WTOP not to use their names for this story. The news came amid ...