US EditionTrump administration unlawfully directed mass worker terminations, judge rules
Federal judge rules Trump administration unlawfully fired 25,000 probationary workers, orders agencies to correct records and bar similar mass terminations in future cases.
- U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled in March that the Trump administration unlawfully directed mass firings of over 25,000 probationary federal employees across 19 agencies.
- The firings resulted from a directive by the Office of Personnel Management , which exceeded its authority by ordering terminations instead of individual agencies exercising their hiring and firing powers.
- Alsup issued a 38-page opinion exposing fabricated government evidence, ordering agencies to update personnel records and send letters stating employees were not fired for performance reasons.
- Alsup clarified that the dismissals were not due to individual job performance, while Everett Kelley, president of the union, condemned the firings as unjust and described the government’s evidence as fraudulent.
- Following the Supreme Court's April pause on reinstatements, Alsup acknowledged many workers would not return, but ordered record corrections and barred similar future personnel office firings.
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Government Workers, AFSCME cheer judge’s ruling against Trump’s firings
SAN FRANCISCO—Two big government worker unions, the Government Employees (AFGE) and AFSCME, cheered a federal judge’s ruling that GOP President Donald Trump and his Office of Personnel Management illegally terminated 25,000 probationary federal workers earlier this year. But in making his ruling against the firings permanent, U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco admitted it might have a limited practical effect. That’s because many…
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Judge rules Trump administration illegally fired thousands of probationary workers
A judge has ruled that the Trump administration's central human resources office acted illegally when it directed the mass firings of thousands of probationary workers.
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge late Friday ruled that the Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary employees this year was illegal, a victory for the labor unions and nonprofit groups that had sued the government over the terminations.
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WASHINGTON >> A federal judge late Friday ruled that the Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary employees this year was illegal, a victory for the labor unions and nonprofit groups that had sued the government over the terminations.
Trump administration unlawfully directed mass US worker terminations,
A federal judge ruled on Friday that US President Donald Trump’s administration had unlawfully directed the firing of thousands of federal workers, but the judge did not order their reinstatement, citing recent US Supreme Court decisions. US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco stuck by his preliminary conclusion in the case that the US Office of Personnel Management
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