Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers
A federal judge in California has ruled that the Office of Personnel Management must rescind memos directing agencies to carry out mass terminations of probationary employees, stating that the agency exceeded its legal authority.
OPM is also required to inform other federal agencies that it had no power to issue such a directive.
While the ruling does not prevent individual agencies from terminating probationary employees at their discretion, the judge emphasized that OPM cannot mandate such actions.
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