On Thursday, a federal judge in the Trump administration ordered the decline in the directions that prompted the release of thousands of federal workers, saying that these directives were “illegal” and a suggestion of stopping the demobilization of workers.
The ruling, by Judge William Alsoub from the Northern Province in California, has stopped an order to a ceasefire and added to the confusion of federal employees, who have defeated mass shootings in recent days.
But Judge Alsup found that the government’s Human Resources Department exceeded its authority when it issued a pair of notes that define steps to launch an estimated 200,000 surveillance workers.
He said that this section, the employee management office, aims to direct agencies, but does not order them to take action. But government agencies responded to OPM notes with comprehensive launchs, a first step in the comprehensive reform of the President of the Federal Bureaucracy Trump and promised to implement it alongside Elon Musk, chief adviser.
Judge Alsup’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed by many trade unions, including AFL-CIO and the American Union of Government Employees, as they compete to launch thousands of test workers.
Judge Alsup said that the government should alert the agencies whose employees are rapidly involved in the lawsuit – including the service of the National Park, the Land Management Office and the National Science Corporation – that it discovered that the directives were illegal. He also ordered the notification of the Pentagon, although it was not a party to the case, expressing concern about news reports that the shootings were imminent.
He pointed out that although he did not believe that he had the ability to give a more expansionist restriction and requires the agencies to stop the demobilization of the planned workers, he expected to comply with the spirit of law, based on his discovery that any fire was taken when urging OPM was illegal.
He said in his decision from the bench: “I will count on the government to do the right thing and go a little further than what I requested and allow some of these agencies to know what it wishes.”
The judge’s decision was limited to agencies and offices that employ the workers represented by an alliance of unions that filed the lawsuit.
Judge Alsup, appointed by President Bill Clinton, said that many agencies have indicated publicly and in the internal observations of employees that they took the office notes as an order. But he said that he could not stop the firing agencies independently.
However, the union alliance celebrated the case with the ruling.
“These are ranks and files who joined the federal government to make a change in their societies, to be suddenly ended because of the contempt of this administration for federal employees and the desire to privatize their work,” Evere Kelly, the National President of the American Union of American employees, said in a statement. “OPM’s direction to agencies to engage in random launch of federal test staff is illegal, simple and simple.”
While he said he saw OPM behavior in recent weeks as illegal on a large scale, he indicated that agencies could make employees changes on their own, which could include the end of test workers, depending on the justification of this step.
“Congress has given the power of employment and release to the same agencies,” he said.
He said: “Agencies can thumb their nose in OPM if they want it – if this is guidelines.” “But if that is an order, or is photographed as an arrangement, the agencies may think they have to comply, although I am now telling them: They don’t do it.”
Judge Alsup described the “lifeblood” of the federal workforce, saying that moving to launch them in collectively harmful agencies and extracting the experience of young workers and new graduates.
He also said that he would set an appointment for the proof session next month when Charles Ezel, the Acting Director of OPM, will be called to testify under the department about the notes sent by his office.
