The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Monday that it is reinstating dozens of probationary employees that the Trump administration fired last month. Why it matters: The reversal comes after a federal judge ordered the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to rescind instructions to several federal agencies to fire probationary employees.

The National Science Foundation is reinstating probationary employees following a court ruling on the firings.

Following the federal court ruling, the Office of Personnel Management told agencies to begin the reinstatement of unlawfully terminated probationary employees.

The National Science Foundation is reinstating 84 employees who were terminated in February, the agency announced Monday.

The National Science Foundation fired 168 federal employees, marking one of many agencies who fired probationary feds at the Trump administration's directions.

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and an employee at the NSF,

Panch has been conveniently absent throughout this whole time,” said an internal email an NSF worker sent to fellow colleagues, referring to Sethuraman Panchanathan, NSF’s director.

Silicon Valley-style startup chaos now standard US govt operating procedure The US government's National Science Foundation has reinstated most of its cadre of probationary employees after laying them off en masse last month.