Five employees of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston who were fired last week, apparently leading to the institution’s abrupt closure and widespread backlash, have been reinstated, according to the nonprofit that supports the library.

The five federal employees who were laid off at Boston’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum earlier this month will soon be back on the job, the foundation that supports the library said Wednesday.

The JFK Library Foundation says five employees who were dismissed last week because of President Trump's executive order on federal workforce reductions have been rehired at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.

Foundation said Wednesday that five staff who were laid off last week, prompting the library to close briefly, have been reinstated. Several of the employees who were affected by the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal government worked in the presidential library’s visitor services department,

All five employees laid off last week as part of the Trump's dismissal of probationary federal workers are now rehired. They work in ticketing and visitor support, and their pay is covered by admissions fees,