Some of America’s most beloved federal employees, National Park Services workers, are some of the thousands of workers who have been hit by the Trump Administration’s firing of federal probationary officers. These indiscriminate firings could be irreparable.
Since January, the Trump Administration has aggressively culled the federal workforce, including firing over 16,000 probationary workers across federal agencies on February 14th, and encouraging more to resign through a voluntary buy-out. Workers affected by these cuts include nuclear weapons workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, health workers at the CDC and NIH, and over 1000 workers within the National Park Services and over 2000 workers within the U.S. Forestry Service.
Legal challenges since then have offered hope but ensured nothing but uncertainty for these workers.
In March, a lower federal court ordered Trump to rehire probationary workers. Senior District Judge William Alsup in the Northern District of California found that the terminations across six agencies were directed by an office without authority; his ruling had the effect of ordering 1000 EEs in the NPS reinstated. In Baltimore, District Judge James Bredar also found that the firings broadly did not satisfy 60 days’ advance notice and ordered the workforce to be returned to the status quo.
But as NPS planned to put its fired probationary workers back on the job, the Supreme Court stayed the California court’s order on the basis of...
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