The ruling applies to workers who were fired from six agencies during recent purge of government workers.

Thousands of federal workers across multiple US agencies, from the Small Business Administration to the Forest Service, were fired this week.

A collection of former civil servants are waging first-time campaigns this year. Some said that President Trump’s attacks on ...

The policy change makes it easier for the president to discipline or remove up to 50,000 employees, another push in the administration’s campaign to reshape the federal work force.