The agencies include the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury.

Most federal workers who lost their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s move to shrink the federal workforce are poised to get rehired. On Thursday, two federal judges ruled that the mass firings were conducted illegally and workers must be reinstated.

A group of U.S. government employees who lost their jobs as part of President Donald Trump's purge of the federal workforce filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming the mass firings of recently-hired workers is illegal and should be reversed.

The agencies include the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury.

Back-to-back rulings from judges in Maryland and California deemed that the firing of probationary workers in several government agencies violated federal employment laws. The mass layoffs did not follow proper legal procedures, according to Judges William Alsup and James Bredar.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office.

Two US judges have ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate the jobs of probationary employees fired en masse by the Trump administration last month. In California, District Judge William Alsup called the sacking of these employees part of a "sham" strategy that aimed to circumvent proper procedures for reducing the federal workforce.