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CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’


Federal court rules U.S. cybersecurity agency must re-hire over 100 former employees

The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate workers it “unlawfully” fired. CISA fired 130 probationary employees in February, as part of the Trump administration’s broad push to slash the federal workforce. The message indicates the agency doesn’t have contact information for all of the former employees it fired — or isn’t aware of all the staffers who were affected by the cuts.

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