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Thousands of Federal worker Got your work back yesterday, a month after the OPM Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which agencies have been dependent on Fire employees on probation.
The decision marks the latest roadblock for President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attempts, massive Cull of the federal employees. And while many of these employees celebrate the ability to return to work, the latest Court decision That doesn’t mean you are absolutely safe.
On Thursday, William H. Alsup, a district court judge in California, said Trump’s decision Firefighters from trial Illegal and noticed that the Office for personnel management (OPM), a kind of HR office for federal employees, has no authority to hire and dismiss employees in other departments. He also had a special problem with the way they did. Last month, the OPM sent all agencies in which they had to fire all employees with the trial time status, together with a termination of the notice of termination, which informed the employees that they were released “based on performance”.
“It was a certificate to try to avoid legal requirements,” said Alsup on Thursday. He added that it was a “sad day on which our government would fire a good employee and said that it was based on the performance if you know well and well that this is a lie”.
Employees who have been terminated from the departments for veteran affairs, agriculture, interior, energy, defense and ministry of finance must now be stopped again. The judge also banned the OPM to give agencies additional instructions for which employees should let go.
But these newly annoyed federal subjects are not yet outside the forest. The cuts of violence (also known as Rifs) are still legal for the government as long as they are “correctly done according to the law,” said Alsup. “In this case, it’s not about whether the government can terminate people or not. It is about whether you decide to end people how to do it. “
The verdict also has no influence on the deadline of this week, which was determined by the Trump administration, according to which all agencies have to send the President and the OPM plans for further layoffs. This means that more cuts are on the road.
In the meantime, however, the unions of the federal employees are happy across the country. “AfGE is satisfied with the command of Richter Alsup, tens of thousands of probation federal employees who were illegally dismissed by their work by a government.
“We are grateful for these employees and the critical work they do, and Afge will continue to fight until all federal employees who were wrongly and illegally released have covered their work.”
Brit Morse
Brit.morse@fortune.com
This story was originally on Fortune.com
