EPA has reinstated hundreds of terminated employees after a federal judge last week ordered agencies across the government to bring back workers fired by the Trump administration.
The agency rehired about 419 impacted employees in response to the Thursday night ruling by a federal judge in Maryland, an EPA spokesperson said Monday in an email.
Most of those employees were put on administrative leave, the spokesperson said.
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The impacted staffers were part of the administration’s early push to terminate “probationary” employees, including recent hires as well as staffers who had switched jobs or been promoted. A district court judge in Maryland ordered EPA and other agencies to bring back fired workers by Monday.
