Laid-off federal workers are holding out hope that either the courts or a stagnate Congress will get them their jobs back — and trying to avoid the increasingly crowded job market if they can.
Dozens of former federal workers gathered at a Senate office building Tuesday for what they called a “job fair.” But workers who spoke to NOTUS said they haven’t been looking for new jobs yet.
“This happened about a week-and-a-half ago, I haven’t really been able to wrap my mind about it,” Hendrick Simoes, a veteran and former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employee who was laid off in the mass firing of probationary workers, told NOTUS.