By Nate Raymond
(Reuters) -A federal court ruled on Friday that the government of US President Donald Trump had directed the resignation of thousands of federal employees, but he did not order their recovery, referring to recent decisions by the US Supreme Court.
US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco was holding on to his provisional conclusion in the case that the American Personnel Management Office in February informed countless agencies to dismiss trial period employees.
Trade unions, non -profit organizations and the state of Washington had sued after the Trump administration had moved to around 25,000 probation workers, who usually have less than a year of service, although some long -term employees are in new jobs.
ALSUP usually said that he would “put the unlawful directive of OPM aside and relax the consequences, brought the parties back to the ex -te -status -quo, and therefore testters in their posts.”
“But the Supreme Court has made enough clear enough through its emergency that the judicial court will convince with regard to rent and dismissal within the executive power, not only in this case, but in others,” wrote Alsup.
In April, the Supreme Court pampered a provisional order that was issued in the case that required six agencies to recover 17,000 employees while the lawsuit was improving.
Asup said that too much had happened since the Supreme Court's decision for him to order employees now to be recovered now, because many had gained new jobs while the administration transformed the government.
But ALSUP, an appointment of the Democratic President Bill Clinton, said that the employees “will nevertheless continue to be damaged by Opm's pretextal termination 'for performance', and that damage can be recovered without recovery.”
He ordered 19 agencies, including the American defense departments, veteran cases, agriculture, energy, interior and treasure chest, to update the files of the employees on November 14 and prohibited them from following OPM guidelines to firefighters.
Representatives of the claimants and the White House did not respond to requests for comments on Saturday.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Edit by Jan Harvey)
