BREAKING: Judge Halts Firing Of Federal Workers

The Washington Post reports:

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management to rescind directives that initiated the mass firing of probationary government workers in several agencies across the government, ruling that the terminations were probably illegal, as a group of labor unions argued in court.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered OPM to rescind its prior directives to agencies including the Department of Defense, the Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Science Foundation, and others. The ruling is one of the biggest roadblocks so far to President Donald Trump’s effort to slash the federal workforce.

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