Judge Orders Reversal Of Probationary Staff Layoffs At HHS, Other Agencies

Updated Story A Baltimore judge issued a temporary restraining order late Thursday (March 14) that directs most probationary federal employees who were laid off amid the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts be given their jobs back, including all those at HHS, saying the administration is imposing illegal reductions in force (RIFs) and the workers were not legally terminated, in a case the Department of Justice swiftly appealed. “In this case, the government conducted massive layoffs, but it gave...