Judge Slams Trump For Putting Fired Probationary Workers On Paid Leave
Source: Huff Post
Mar 18, 2025, 12:38 PM EDT
A federal judge slammed the Trump administration Monday for putting fired workers entitled to reinstatement on paid administrative leave, saying they should be back on their jobs immediately. Judge William Alsup, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said in his order that putting workers on paid leave does nothing to fix the government services that were hurt due to the firings.
He gave the Trump administration until 3 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday to explain what was going on. “The Court has read news reports that, in at least one agency, probationary employees are being rehired but then placed on administrative leave en masse,” Alsup wrote in his order. “This is not allowed by the preliminary injunction, for it would not restore the services the preliminary injunction intends to restore.”
The Trump administration fired tens of thousands of probationary workers across the federal government last month as part of its sweeping cuts to government services led by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
Probationary employees typically have only a year or two on the job and have not worked long enough to secure tenure protections, though other employees are classified as probationary simply due to recent promotions. The fired workers received termination notices saying they were losing their jobs for performance reasons — even though many had sterling work records and had never been disciplined before.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-order-trump-fired-probationary-employees_n_67d99891e4b0f28acf227ecf
Link to ORDER (PDF viewer) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6IxtvrB0j7fviASIIs3sMy1yyChQ3Vc/view
REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143420424
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