Trump orders federal workers back to office, weakens job protections

Experts say moves may drive government employees out of their jobs

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Trump ordered all heads of departments and agencies to terminate employees' remote work. More workers have to go back to office. (A subway train in New York, 2018.) © Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weakened job protections for civil servants, the first salvoes in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy.

The one-two punch would force large numbers of white-collar government employees to forfeit remote working arrangements, reversing a trend that took off in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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