A federal appeals court has temporarily stopped a lower court’s ruling that ordered the government to rehire approximately 24,000 probationary workers. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stated that the government is likely to succeed in proving that the district court did not have jurisdiction over the workers’ claims. The decision is pending the government’s full appeal, effectively ending the injunction that would have required the workers to be reinstated. This ruling comes after the Supreme Court also halted a California judge’s order to reinstate around 16,000 federal workers that the Trump administration had attempted to fire. The 4th Circuit decision stems from a case in Maryland, where a federal judge had sided with a coalition of states who argued that the government did not follow proper procedures when laying off such a large number of employees. The judge stated that the government did not provide advanced notice of the layoffs, claiming they were due to individualized reasons when in reality, they were all terminated collectively. The government’s appeal of the ruling to rehire the probationary workers is ongoing.
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