The order comes in response to a request from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), which is investigating the firings of probationary employees. It follows a similar decision issued last week that temporarily reinstated six probationary workers fired from six different agencies. Those employees are now back on the job at least through April 10, according to their lawyer, Michelle Bercovici.
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Later on Wednesday, [Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger], who himself had been reinstated by a U.S. District Court after President Trump tried to fire him in early February, was once again removed from his position after an appeals court in the District of Columbia sided with the Trump administration, lifting the lower court’s stay while it weighs the legal arguments of his case.
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By Wednesday afternoon, official word of the reinstatement had still not reached fired employees, who remain wary of what’s ahead.
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