A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to rehire tens of thousands of government employees sacked in recent weeks, in one of the biggest legal setbacks to Elon Musk’s aggressive cost-cutting drive.
The order, made by San Francisco district judge William Alsup, demanded the immediate reinstatement of probationary employees across agencies including the US Treasury and defence and energy departments, after representatives of government workers argued they had been unlawfully fired.
Alsup found that the Office of Personnel Management, a government human resources agency that has been one of the primary vehicles used by Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), had no legal authority to order such dismissals.
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