A federal judge on Wednesday said she would issue an order requiring the government to reinstate hundreds of employees fired during the federal government shutdown and stop ongoing efforts to fire more federal workers.
Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, at a hearing in a lawsuit brought by federal worker unions, criticized Trump administration efforts to continue layoffs despite a provision in the law that ended the longest federal government shutdown in history.
That short-term spending patch through Jan. 30 included a provision that prohibited the government from taking steps to “initiate, carry out, implement, or otherwise notice a reduction in force,” as well as a separate provision that would require the government to roll back the RIFs for employees fired during the shutdown.
