Will Fired Social Workers Report for Work?

A Union official, George Johnson, the President of AFSCME, says he expects three social workers fired by Mayor Fenty to be back on the job next week.

The three were immediately dismissed after the bodies of four girls were found in their home and their mother, Banita Jacks, 33, was arrested and charged with murder. She has pleaded not guilty.

A coroner at first ruled the cause of death, homicide, but has since ruled he can't determine how the girls were killed because the bodies had been decaying for too long.

An administrative judge, in a separate but related matter,ruled the Social workers were denied due process.

Fenty says they didn't do their jobs in following up on signs of trouble with the family that had been in the child family services system for years.

The Fenty administration has indicated it will appeal the administrative judges ruling.There has been no word on whether the workers will be allowed to return to their jobs on Monday.

Meanwhile, relatives of the Jacks family have obtained attorneys, and seem posed to file suit against the City.