Fired workers are reinstated at NOAA, creating confusion on the heels of severe storms

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fired-workers-reinstated-noaa-creating-134032905.html

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  1. **From NBC News:**

    Workers at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration this week experienced a kind of whiplash as the federal government tried to reinstate probationary employees who had been fired.

    More than [600 NOAA workers were laid off more than two weeks ago](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/noaa-workers-fired-weather-forecasts-programs-safety-rcna194568), including some in public safety roles, such as scientists who issue tsunami alerts, hurricane-hunting flight directors and meteorologists in local forecast offices.

    But Thursday, [a U.S. district judge in Maryland issued a temporary restraining order](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/judge-orders-thousands-probationary-employees-fired-trump-reinstated-rcna196366), blocking (at least temporarily) the terminations of tens of thousands of workers across agencies and ordering them to be reinstated. The Trump administration said in court Monday that it had moved to reinstate about 24,000 workers affected by the widespread cuts to the federal government’s probationary workforce. (Probationary workers are typically in their first or second years of federal service.)

  2. It’s all about traumatizing the feds into quitting, this is all by design

  3. How we wish all those scientists would end up spread across Japan, China, and here in Europe, places where they would undoubtedly be more respected than in the US. We mustn’t forget the anti-intellectual trend that’s increasingly spreading in the US, where being a scientist can end up becoming a problem for personal safety.

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