The move to bring back laid off probationary employees comes after two federal judges deemed the terminations illegal.

President Donald Trump's administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said federal agencies were working to bring all of them back after a judge ruled their terminations were likely illegal.

The Trump administration has directed NOAA to lay off approximately 1,000 workers on top of 1,300 workers that have already been l