A federal judge has ordered half a dozen federal agencies to “immediately” reinstate probationary employees fired last month as part of the Trump administration’s effort to rapidly shrink the federal workforce,

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary employees fired at the direction of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Probationary employees are federal workers in the first or second year of their employment,

U.S. District Judge William Alsup delivered a furious rebuke to the Trump administration over its mass purge of civil servants.