The move to bring back laid off probationary employees comes after two federal judges deemed the terminations illegal.

Thousands of probationary federal employees reinstated to their positions via court orders aren’t back to work, as the administration fights lawsuits over President Donald Trump‘s efforts to reshape the federal workforce.

President Donald Trump's administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said federal agencies were working to bring all of them back after a judge ruled their terminations were likely illegal.