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5 JFK Library employees who were fired last week have all been ‘reinstated,’ library says

“They are all critical to the Library revenue generating operations, which can now resume as normal, and it is wonderful to have our valued colleagues back.”

The JFK Library on Feb. 18. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff

February 26, 2025

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The five staff members at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Dorchester who were fired last week as part of mass layoffs of federal workers have been “reinstated,” the JFK Library Foundation said in a statement on Wednesday.

“As the Foundation that supports the JFK Library, we are relieved that all five members of the JFK Library staff who were let go last week have been reinstated,” the foundation said. “They are all critical to Library revenue generating operations, which can now resume as normal, and it is wonderful to have our valued colleagues back.”

The foundation said the affected employees hold federal positions paid through the library’s revenue generating operations, including admissions, and were reinstated by the National Archives and Records Administration.

The library was forced to close briefly last week after the workers were suddenly fired as part of the Trump administration’s mass dismissal of federal employees who were on probation, within the first or second year on the job.

According to WBUR, the absence of the five laid off employees meant that other staffers, including the director of the library, Alan Price, had to be called in to work the front desk over the weekend.

“We’re all thrilled to have the team back,” Price told the station.