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

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.

The National Science Foundation is reinstating 84 employees who were terminated in February, the agency announced Monday. NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan told the agency’s staff Monday morning that the agency is in the process of bringing back some of its terminated employees in the wake of new guidance from the Trump administration and a court ruling issued last week.