CDC reinstates nearly 200 axed probationary employees

Published March 6, 2025 11:25am ET



The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reinstated 180 probationary employees weeks after they were fired as part of the Department of Government Efficiency‘s efforts to reduce the federal workforce.

The order came less than a week after a federal judge in California ruled that an Office of Personnel Management directive calling on executive agencies to fire masses of probationary employees was unlawful.

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