Court rules against Trump’s workforce cuts, orders job restorations
smartcybers786@gmail.com 
A cyclist shows support to demonstrators participating in a protest against the mass firings employees in a campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the US bureaucracy, as the demonstrators walk towards Fort Mason Park in San Francisco, California, US March 1, 2025. — Reuters
#Court #rules #Trumps #workforce #cuts #orders #job #restorations
An American federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s large -scale reduction, in which six government agencies have been ordered to restore thousands of workers who were dismissed as part of the federal manpower campaign.
During a hearing in San Francisco, US District Judge William Alsop’s decision was the most important blow by Trump and senior adviser Elon Musk in an attempt to shrink the federal bureaucracy. Government agencies face Thursday’s deadline to present a second wave of large -scale plans and reduce their budget.
ALSUP’s decision applies to the US Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Interior, and Treasury Department of Agriculture Department.
The judge said that the US Office for Personal Management, the Human Resource for Federal Agencies, has wrongly ordered these agencies to order the dismissal of the workers.
“This is a tragic day when our government will fired a good employee and says it was based on performance when he knows good and well,” said Alsop, the appointment of former Democrat President Bill Clinton.
The White House press secretary Karin Levyt said in a statement that ElSOP had no authority to issue the decision and the administration would “fight immediately.”
“The president has the authority to exercise the powers of the entire executive branch – the only district court judge cannot misuse the entire judiciary’s authority to thwart the agenda of the president,” said Levit.
During the hearing, Also said that agencies may be involved in large -scale useless, but they need to comply with several legal requirements.
Proboat workers usually have less than a year in their current roles, though they have been a federal employee for a long time. They have less job safety than other government workers, but in general, it can only be dismissed for performance issues.
Alsop ordered agencies to restore workers who were fired in the past few weeks, as a result of legalism by unions, non -profit groups and Washington.
He did not order the 16 other agencies named in the legalization to restore the workers, but said that it would immediately issue a written decision that could spread in Thursday’s decision.
A spokesman for the Veterans Affairs refused to comment. The interior spokesperson said that the agency does not comment on legal action on the affairs of the personnel.
Other agencies did not immediately respond to the comments requests.
The plaintiffs include the American Federation of Government employees, representing 800,000 federal workers. The president of the union, Evaret Kelly, said in a statement that the decision was an important victory against the administration against the “disability of federal agencies and their work by the American people”.
25,000 workers
Elsop had temporarily stopped OPMs from ordering agencies to dismiss probationary employees last month, but at that time it was denied that the sacked workers should bring back their jobs. The plaintiffs then amended their trial to include the agencies that dismissed the probatory workers.
According to a Reuters, about 25,000 US government workers were fired by March 5, and 75,000 have been purchased. The Trump administration has not released statistics about the dismissal, and it is not immediately clear how many employees may be affected by Thursday’s decision.
Prior to Al -Sop, the plaintiffs claim that mass dismissal was illegal because they were ordered by OPM instead of going to the discretion of individual agencies.
The OPM has maintained that it simply asked the agencies in the January 20 memo to identify the probationary workers and decide which people are not “mission critical” and can be dismissed, and they have not ordered them to abolish anyone.
On March 4, the agency revised the memo, adding that it was not instructing the agencies to take any special action in relation to probationary employees.
OPM has pointed to the latest memo and indicated the release of the release by agencies as evidence that it has no control over agencies’ decisions.
Elsop told the US Department of Justice’s lawyer, who represents OPM, Kelsey Helland on Thursday, he was not convinced that this was true and that the OPM’s acting director, Charles Ezil, scolded the government.
“I’ve been practicing or serving in this court for more than 50 years, and I know how we come to the truth, and you are not helping me get the truth. You are giving me press release, shame documents.
Helland said it was common for the presidential administration to prevent senior officials from testifying in court and the information provided by the OPM in the judicial filed is enough to prove that it never ordered the agencies to dismiss the workers.
In California, along with legalism, several other challenges have been filed for mass dismissal, including the proposed class proceedings by a group of 20 Democrats -led state -run states and a group of dismissed activists.
The Merit Systems Protection Board, which reviews the appeals of federal employees, when they are dismissed, earlier this month, the Agriculture Department was ordered to temporarily restore at least 6,000 probationary workers.
