{"id":23978,"date":"2025-03-14T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23978"},"modified":"2025-03-14T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:14:46","slug":"donald-trump-ordered-to-rehire-thousands-of-workers-previously-fired-by-him-and-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23978","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump ordered to rehire thousands of workers previously fired by him and Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump could be heading into the weekend with his tail between his legs after federal judges ordered him to rehire thousands of workers he recently sacked.<\/p>\n

It seems like the\u00a0US<\/a>\u00a0president still gets a lot of use out of his catchphrase on\u00a0The Apprentice<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>as he’s told a huge amount of people ‘you’re fired’ since returning to office.<\/p>\n

But his attempt to free up\u00a0money<\/a>\u00a0by overhauling the\u00a0government<\/a>\u00a0workforce has now been branded a ‘sham’ by judges in California and Maryland.<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a>\u00a0didn’t waste any time when he resumed the role of president in January, as he\u00a0publicly sacked four White House staff<\/a>\u00a0just two days after he was sworn in.<\/p>\n

But this was just the tip of the iceberg, as he and\u00a0Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0then began a mass exodus of federal workers.<\/p>\n

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is headed up by\u00a0Tesla<\/a>\u00a0boss Musk, let go of thousands of ‘probationary employees’ earlier this year.<\/p>\n

This term typically describes people who have held their position for two years or less.<\/p>\n

Now, these staff from the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Agriculture, Interior and other agencies are set to be vindicated.<\/p>\n

That’s because US District Judge William Alsup has ordered that these employees should immediately get their\u00a0jobs<\/a>\u00a0back.<\/p>\n

The court in San Francisco was told that at least 30,000 workers were wrongfully fired for ‘poor performance’, with Judge Alsup branding this narrative ‘a lie’.<\/p>\n

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Alsup demanded that the six government agencies reinstate the staff, having previously ruled that the sackings were ‘illegal<\/a>‘ because the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) did not have the authority to order them.<\/p>\n

The judge also extended a temporary injunction which forbids the OPM from sharing guidance about terminating staff.<\/p>\n

“The reason that OPM wanted to put this based on performance was at least in part in my judgment a gimmick to avoid the Reductions in Force Act,” the judge said.<\/p>\n

“Because the law always allows you to fire somebody for performance. It is a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that\u2019s a lie.<\/p>\n

“That should not have been done in our country. It was a sham in order to try to avoid statutory requirements.”<\/p>\n

He also directed the departments to report back within seven days with a list of probationary employees and an explanation of how the agencies complied with his order as to each person.<\/p>\n

Hours later, another judge in Baltimore, Maryland followed suit with a similar ruling which ordered that employees who were fired across 18 agencies must be reinstated for at least 14 days.<\/p>\n

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Americans have been rallying behind federal workers in recent weeks (ALEX WROBLEWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

US District Judge James Bredar said that sacked staff – from departments including Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Treasury and Veterans Affairs – have to be brought back, at least temporarily.<\/p>\n

“In this case, the government conducted massive layoffs, but it gave no advance notice,” Judge Bredar said in his ruling.<\/p>\n

“It claims it wasn\u2019t required to because, it says, it dismissed each one of these thousands of probationary employees for ‘performance’ or other individualised reasons.<\/p>\n

“On the record before the court, this isn\u2019t true. There were no individualised assessments of employees. They were all just fired. Collectively.”<\/p>\n

Judge Bredar – who suggested the mass firings were ‘an illegal scheme spanning broad swaths of the federal workforce’ – provided a deadline to reinstate the affected employees, which is 17 March.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the rulings, saying that the Trump administration will ‘fight back against this absurd and unconstitutional order’ in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The President has the authority to exercise the power of the entire executive branch – singular district court judges cannot abuse the power of the entire judiciary to thwart the President\u2019s agenda,” she said in the wake of the first ruling.<\/p>\n

“If a federal district court judge would like executive powers, they can try and run for President themselves. The Trump Administration will immediately fight back against this absurd and unconstitutional order.”<\/p>\n

LADbible has contacted the White House for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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