The order by the Merit Systems Protection Board gives USDA five days to comply with a stay on the workforce reduction.

As President Donald Trump's administration continues its sweeping overhaul of the federal government, the Department of ...

It was unclear whether the USDA or Forest Service would actually follow the order to reinstate the employees. Remaining employees said fired workers had not returned.

An independent commission says thousands of USDA employees terminated by the Trump Administration will return to their ...

The Office of Special Counsel applauded MSPB’s stay decision at USDA and urged all agencies to follow suit on reinstating fired probationary employees.

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

A federal judge ruled that Trump unlawfully fired MSPB Chair Cathy Harris and ordered her reinstatement, teeing up a higher court review.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Republican U.S. President Donald Trump from firing the Democratic chair of a U.S. agency ...

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras found that the termination violated long-standing Supreme Court precedent limiting the ...

Cathy Harris, a Democrat who led the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) until she was fired by President Donald Trump last ...

In a Monday hearing in Washington, D.C., before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee, the DOJ’s Jeremy ...