The Trump administration must continue rehiring fired federal workers at six agencies while it appeals a California federal judge’s ruling demanding the employees return to their jobs, an appeals court decided.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the government’s emergency request to pause a preliminary injunction from Judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Alsup found the Office of Personnel Management’s order to federal agency heads to fire probationary employees was likely illegal. OPM is the federal government’s HR division.
The OPM order is central to the Trump administration’s ...