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The decision could apply more broadly to thousands of other government employees who were fired because they were on probationary status and relatively new in their positions.

The Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency that hears appeals by government employees when they are fired or disciplined, issued the decision at the behest of a watchdog agency whose leader's removal by Trump has been stalled by the courts.