{"id":14214,"date":"2025-03-14T03:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2025-03-14T03:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:53:42","slug":"judges-order-us-government-to-rehire-thousands-of-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14214","title":{"rendered":"Judges order US government to rehire thousands of workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=594a4cc3-e7bb-43a3-8430-7fd6b80cd0f6&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Two federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to rehire tens of thousands of government employees sacked in recent weeks, in a significant legal setback to Elon Musk\u2019s aggressive cost-cutting drive.<\/p>\n<p>Across both cases, the Trump administration was ordered to restore probationary employees throughout 19 federal agencies. The judges determined that the workers had been fired in breach of rules surrounding mass lay-offs of government employees.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Maryland district judge James Bredar issued a temporary restraining order directing the government to reinstate employees at agencies including the US Treasury, the energy and commerce departments, and the all-but-shuttered Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and US Agency for International Development. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe terminated probationary employees were plainly not terminated for cause\u201d despite the federal government insisting they were, wrote Bredar in a memorandum accompanying his order.<\/p>\n<p>He also found that the federal government gave \u201cno advance notice\u201d of what were in effect reductions in force, which harmed states that \u201cweren\u2019t ready for the impact of so many unemployed people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bredar noted that the states which sued the federal government alleged at least 24,000 probationary workers had been fired.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, San Francisco district judge William Alsup demanded the immediate reinstatement of probationary employees across six agencies, including the defence department, after representatives of government workers argued they had been unlawfully fired.<\/p>\n<p>Alsup found that the Office of Personnel Management, a government human resources agency that has been one of the primary vehicles used by Musk\u2019s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), had no legal authority to order such dismissals.<\/p>\n<p>At a hearing on Thursday, Alsup also criticised the US government for failing to send the OPM\u2019s acting director or any other official to answer questions about the recent lay-offs \u2014 despite an explicit request by the court \u2014 and expressed doubt about the Trump administration\u2019s claim that those fired had been underperforming in their roles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law is clear that OPM has no authority to order the federal agencies to fire their employees,\u201d said Danielle Leonard, a lawyer at Altshuler Berzon representing the plaintiffs. \u201cToday\u2019s ruling is an important first step in holding this administration accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court orders are the latest in a series of blows to Doge\u2019s cost-cutting crusade. This month, the Supreme Court upheld an order forcing the government to pay $2bn worth of foreign aid contracts that the Trump administration had attempted to cancel, while judges in lower courts have prevented Musk\u2019s emissaries from accessing some sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>The US government has also moved to clarify a directive issued soon after Trump\u2019s inauguration regarding probationary employees, emphasising that it is up to individual agencies to make personnel decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Trump last week urged Musk to use a \u201cscalpel\u201d rather than a \u201chatchet\u201d to identify savings, after the scale and breadth of cuts and lay-offs prompted protest even from Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement regarding Alsup\u2019s order, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the judge of \u201cattempting to unconstitutionally seize the power of hiring and firing from the executive branch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a federal district court judge would like executive powers, they can try and run for president themselves,\u201d she said. \u201cThe Trump administration will immediately fight back against this absurd and unconstitutional order.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/594a4cc3-e7bb-43a3-8430-7fd6b80cd0f6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - 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