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Forest Service employee who was fired, rehired and placed on leave with backpay asks what’s next: ‘It’s not clear at what point they would have me return to work’

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Sam Peterson is one of Thousands of federal workers who shot He was offered his job under the judge’s order, but he did not jump to the opportunity to return to his position in the guard garden in the Lake Roosevelt National District in Washington State.

Instead, he soon refused, and he chose to move with his wife to start a profession outside the government at the Oregon Museum.

“We have signed a rental contract on Monday and who knows what will bring him the next few months if I would return to federal work,” said Peterson, 26,.

Whether it will return to the federal workforce is a decision facing thousands of employees who opened fire after a judge this month found legal problems on how President Donald Trump reduces the size of the United States government. One ruling by a California federal judge returns 16,000 employees under observation.

On Monday, the Trump administration sought to stopTo stop nomination orders. It was not clear how quickly the country’s Supreme Court could rule in the emergency resumption of emergency, which argued that the American boycott judge, William Alsup, who was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton, exceeded his legal authority.

Although it is not known that the number of federal workers who take offers to return to work, some employees have already decided to move forward, in fear.More discountsUnder the road.

Others who were asked to return immediately on an administrative vacation were placed, with full wage and benefits, or provided early retirement. For those who chose to return, some say that the decision came to their dedication to work and the belief that what they do is important.

Eric Anderson, 48, received a speech last week that he could return to his post as a biological science technician at Indiana Dion’s National Park. He said he was excited to return on Tuesday, where he would lead a crew running burns described to reduce the effects of land land fire, but worried about uncertainty.

Anderson said: “I have heard that the positions of some people have changed from doing what they usually do to do something completely strange and different.” “It will be interesting to return to whether things are still changing daily.”

TrumpMinistry of Governmental efficiencyWhich is supervised by billionaire Elon Musk, the number of test workers who were cut, and the number of workers who were placed on leave.

The American Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts asked the government accountability office to request answers to these questions and study the effects of shooting, on the pretext that the removal of people fromCritical government fields– such as air travel, harassment of ground fires, control of infectious diseases, nuclear security, and health care of old warriors – the province’s health care and safety has been at risk. In a letter to Warren and other Democratic Senate members, the Federal Office said that before they requested a shooting review.

One of the agencies, the national park service, was authorized to rehabilitate 1,000 workers, according to the National Association for the Preservation of Gardens. The group celebrated the reflection, but criticized the process.

“This chaotic injury is not a means of managing the garden service, especially because they welcome millions of visitors at the present time,” said Theresa Berno, President and CEO of the association. “This administration needs to stop playing games with the future of our national gardens.”

Brian Gibs,That was launchedAn environmental teachers’ function in the National Environment Memorial in Iowa in February, he returned to work on Monday. In a widely joint post on Facebook, Gibbs said it is committed to serving the American public “with my best capabilities as long as I was allowed to” lead the field trips in the park.

Some employees of the Ministry of Interior have been given their jobs only to be presented to the early retirement package, according to a message reviewed by the Associated Press.

The other returning workers have been placed on an administrative leave, as the Trump administration appeals the court rulings on collective shooting. This means that some workers were expelled as part of an attempt to eliminate government waste only to employ and push them, at least for a period of time, for lack of work.

Sydney Smith, 28, was an employee under observation in the service of the forests that were on aA temporary mission for the Library of CongressWhen it was finished. It was recruited, but it was placed immediately on an administrative leave with the backpack. Smith said she is ready to return to work and hope that others will also return.

“It is not clear at any point they will return to work,” she said. “So I get salaries but I don’t work. This is not effective.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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2025-03-25 09:46:00

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