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• Board agrees to pause firings for some feds, potentially upending Trump's widespread terminations - February 25, 2025

• By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Some federal employees fired by the Trump administration while in their probationary periods have at least temporarily won back their jobs, a federal board that hears appeals from civil servants has ruled.
  
  The Merit Systems Protection Board has granted a 45-day stay requested by another independent agency, the Office of Special Counsel, which had deemed the Trump administration’s mass firings as likely unlawful. The case involved six federal workers, each at different agencies, who must now be placed back into their positions.
  
  The case was heard by Raymond Limon, one of the three Senate-confirmed members of MSPB's central board, who noted federal statute and case law required him to grant OSC’s stay request unless it was “inherently unreasonable.”

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