Two US federal judges issued orders on Thursday, on the basis of which President Donald Trump’s administration must re -accept thousands of employees released during the mass redundancies. According to AP, these decisions of judges in California and Maryland have now slowed the dramatic reduction of the number of federal employees, TASR reports.
Both judges independently found legal problems with the manner of mass redundancies and ordered at least a temporary return of employees to work.
Trump’s administration appealed against the decision
Trump’s administration has already appealed against the first decision of a judge in San Francisco, California. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt described him as an attempt to interfere with the President’s authority to receive and dismiss employees. “Trump’s administration will immediately fight this absurd and unconstitutional order,” she said in a statement.
US judge William Alsup stated on Thursday morning that the termination of employment in six agencies was ordered by the Personnel Management Office and the reigning director Charles Ezell, who was not jurisdiction.
In Baltimore, Maryland, Judge James Bredar said that the administration ignored the laws set for extensive redundancies. Bredar ordered the dismissal to stop for at least two weeks and to return employees to the position before the launch starts.
It has been on the side of nearly two dozen states brought by a lawsuit claiming that mass redundancies are illegal and already has an impact on the governments of US states trying to help suddenly unemployed.
The lawsuit states state that at least 24,000 employees in the probationary period have been released from Trump’s on office, although the government has not confirmed this number.
Trump’s administration claims that states have no right to try to influence the relationship of the federal government to its own employees. The lawyers of the Ministry of Justice advocate the action that the dismissal concerned the performance of performance, not the extensive redundancies that would be subject to a special regulation.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for a comment on Bredar’s decision. It is estimated that there are 200,000 workers in the trial period in the federal offices. These include beginning employees, but also workers who have recently been promoted.
