By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal employees can get permission to work from home or adjust their hours to accommodate religious fasts and prayers, the Trump administration said on Wednesday,

Former government employees are finding that perhaps the only thing harder than getting laid off from the federal government is staying that way.

About 60 former federal workers have applied for a one-time $700 loan Maryland Governor Wes Moore made available nearly three months ago — an offer intended to soften the blow from President

A Supreme Court decision giving the Trump administration the greenlight to lay off tens of thousands of employees threatens to reshape the federal workforce amid a broader battle over whether the

Federal workers affected by mass layoffs this year are getting support from Montgomery County in Maryland. The county is home to more than 70,000 federal employees, so the region has felt the impact of this year’s cuts deeply. Over 4,000 residents have lost their jobs since January.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is moving ahead with a plan to cut 10,000 jobs after the Supreme Court lifted a pause on the layoffs.

HHS faces other legal challenges over its workforce cuts. A class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia claims the department relied on “hopelessly error-ridden” data when it carried out the mass terminations on April 1.

A court-ordered pause in May covered nearly two dozen federal agencies at different stages of executing President Trump’s directive for mass layoffs. The Supreme Court said the administration could proceed.

The embattled EPA's employees are in their third week of dealing with workplace temperatures that routinely top 80 degrees.

The legislation passed Tuesday gives hiring preference to former federal workers whose positions were eliminated or reduced by the Trump administration this year.

Other agencies are moving forward with RIFs and terminations, but official tells federal court some plans have changed.