An appeals court has denied a Trump administration request to block a district court's ruling that directs it to rehire tens of thousands of federal workers it fired.

An appeals court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request for an immediate stay on a lower court ruling that reinstated thousands of probationary federal employees who had been fired. A three-judge panel on the U.

The order affects workers at six federal agencies, plus workers who had already been granted relief through an earlier ruling.