US EditionJudge Halts Layoffs of Federal Employees
A federal judge halted layoffs affecting thousands of workers during the shutdown as the Trump administration planned cuts totaling 10,000 employees, union leaders said.
- On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston temporarily blocked multi-agency layoffs during the federal government shutdown, ruling the Trump administration's reduction-in-force notices illegal and beyond its authority.
- The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo threatening mass firings ahead of a shutdown, prompting the American Federation of Government Employees and AFSCME to file the Sept. 30 lawsuit alleging unlawful plans.
- Education Department records show the cuts would remove roughly 20% of staff, shrinking headcount from 4,133 at inauguration to approximately 2,183 and shuttering seven OCR regional offices.
- The judge's order requires reinstatement of Office for Civil Rights staff and the U.S. Department of Education plans to return more than 260 OCR staff in waves every two weeks through Nov. 3.
- At the hearing, Elizabeth Hedges declined to defend the legality of the firings, and union leaders praised the ruling, with Vought saying layoffs could total over 4,000 amid ongoing appeals.
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Breitbart Business Digest: Judge’s Ruling Blocking Trump’s Shutdown Cuts Turns Federal Bureaucracy into a Protected Class
A Judge Blocks Trump’s Shutdown Cuts and Invites a Constitutional Showdown A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from proceeding with mass layoffs of federal employees during the government shutdown, calling the move “unprecedented” and “the epitome of hasty, arbitrary, and capricious decisionmaking.” Judge Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee in the Northern District of California, issued a temporary restraining order o…
Breitbart Business Digest: Judge's Ruling Blocking Trump’s Shutdown Cuts Turns Federal Bureaucracy into a Protected Class
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from proceeding with mass layoffs of federal employees during the government shutdown, calling the move “unprecedented” and “the epitome of hasty, arbitrary, and capricious decisionmaking.”
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CNHI NewsOKLAHOMA VOICE: Federal judge blocks Trump from carrying out thousands of layoffs during shutdown
WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday, blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with the thousands of layoffs it initiated after the government shutdown began Oct. 1, as well as any others that officials might…
Federal judge blocks Trump administration's layoffs during government shutdown, citing political motivation.
A federal judge accuses Trump of circumventing the rules of the rule of law in the ongoing shutdown – and thus blocking mass redundancies for the time being.
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