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Multiple court orders are causing agencies to switch directions in their compliance with White House directives on collective bargaining and mass firings.

The Trump administration wants to make it easier for supervisors in the federal workforce to dismiss probationary employees after a federal judge blasted agencies for firing tens of thousands of those workers for poor “performance.

A federal judge says he sympathizes with thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration, but he also voiced skepticism about whether reinstating them to their jobs was a proper remedy and questioned what the courts could ultimately do.

The appeal to the full Court of Appeals in D.C. seeks to put the case back on the terms that a lower court judge considered.

The U.S. Supreme Court said that federal employees who also are in the military reserve must be paid the equivalent of their civilian salaries when called to active duty during national emergencies.