blocked planned layoffs<\/a> at the State Department, saying the firings appeared to violate a November spending deal that reopened the federal government. That legislation included provisions that prohibited reductions in force through January.<\/p>\n\u201cThe chaotic nature of these RIFs has been continuing and has affected employees of the government in many ways, including loss of potential alternative jobs, loss of health care,\u201d Illston said at the Wednesday hearing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situations that have brought this matter to court are truly extreme,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Federal unions sued the Trump administration in September in the US District Court for the Northern District of California over firings that occurred during the most recent government shutdown. Illston froze those layoffs, finding they appeared to be \u201cfor the purpose of political retribution.\u201d<\/p>\n
The unions now have accused the administration of narrowly interpreting legislative language to continue termination notices that were started before the 43-day government shutdown.<\/p>\n
Altshuler Berzon LLP and Democracy Forward Foundation represent the unions. <\/p>\n
The case is AFGE v. OMB<\/a>, N.D. Cal., No. 3:25-cv-08302, order 12\/17\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration\u2019s attempt to fire hundreds of federal workers is a violation of the shutdown-ending legislation passed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,6806,54110,54112,54111,6808,6805,10005],"class_list":["post-99206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-discharge-of-employee","tag-federal-agency-budget","tag-furloughs","tag-government-employees","tag-reductions-in-force","tag-reinstatement-of-employee","tag-temporary-restraining-orders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}