Another one.
A federal judge on Thursday evening ordered the Trump Administration to rehire approximately 20,000 probationary workers across 18 different agencies.
US District Judge James Bredar, an Obama appointee, said the Trump Administration cannot conduct massive layoffs without warning the workers.
“When the federal government terminates large numbers of its employees, including those still on probation because they were recently hired or promoted, it must follow certain rules,” the judge wrote in a 56-page order. “Some of those rules are intended to help states manage the consequences of sudden, mass layoffs.”
The judge continued, “In this case, the government conducted massive layoffs, but it gave no advance notice. If claims it wasn’t required to because, it says, it dismissed each one of these thousands of probationary employees for “performance” or other individualized reasons. On the record before the Court, this isn’t true. There were no individualized assessments of employees. They were all just fired. Collectively.”
