USDA's Announces a Phased Return-to-Duty Plan With Pay for Fired Probationary Employees

USDA’s Announces a Phased Return-to-Duty Plan With Pay for Fired Probationary Employees

By Food Safety Tech Staff

All terminated probationary employees will be placed in pay status and provide each with back pay, from the date of termination

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released the following statement on their website today regarding the status of probationary employees:

“On Wednesday, March 5, the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) issued a 45-day stay on the termination of U.S. Department of Agriculture probationary employees. By Wednesday, March 12, the Department will place all terminated probationary employees in pay status and provide each with back pay, from the date of termination. The Department will work quickly to develop a phased plan for return-to-duty, and while those plans materialize, all probationary employees will be paid.”

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