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The Merit Systems Protection Board ordered the administration to reinstate the workers.
A federal agency on Feb. 25 stopped President Donald Trump’s administration from firing six probationary workers, at least for now.
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) sided with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and imposed a 45-day stay on the terminations of six workers.
Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, said in a filing to the board that the terminations violated federal law in part because officials did not adequately evaluate the performance of the employees before firing them.
Federal law lets the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) request an MSPB member stay a termination for 45 days if the OSC determines there are “reasonable grounds to believe that the personnel action was taken, or is to be taken, as a result of a prohibited personnel practice.”
The law says the request shall be granted unless the board determines a stay would not be appropriate.
The OSC serves to protect federal employees, former federal employees, and applicants from prohibited practices such as discrimination. The MSPB adjudicates complaints from workers, former…
