By Leah Douglas
(Reuters) – The US Department of Agriculture will adhere to the Wednesday Deadline published by a Federal Council to temporarily restore his dismissal employees, according to a statement from the agency.
The Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency that hears an appeal from federal employees when they are dismissed or disciplined, told the USDA on 5 March that it must temporarily recover nearly 6,000 probation workers who have been dismissed as part of President Donald Trump for the federal activities.
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The order required the employees to be recovered for 45 days.
“By Wednesday, March 12, the Department will place all the terminated probation workers in the wage status and each repay, from the date of termination,” said the statement.
“The department will work quickly to develop a phased plan for return-to-duty, and although those plans occur, all probationary employees will be paid,” said it.
More than half of the dismissed employees were in the forest service, a USDA agency that manages national forests and responds to forest fires.
Federal agencies are required this week to submit plans to further reduce staff.
(Reporting by Leah Douglas; editing by Bill Berkrot)
