The administration of US President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time in lawsuits that he fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers and said federal agencies were working to bring them all back after a judge decided that his layoffs appeared to be illegal.
Baltimore Federal Court, Maryland, on Monday night, included statements by employees of 18 agencies, all who said that the reinstated probationary workers were being placed on at least temporarily administrative license.
Mass layoffs, part of Trump’s cuts to federal labor, have been widely disclosed, but court proceedings are the first complete report of the Administration layoffs.
Most agencies said they had fired a few hundred workers. The Treasury Department fired about 7,600 people, the Department of Agriculture about 5,700 and the Department of Health and Human Services more than 3,200, according to the processes.
On March 13, district judge James Bredar said the mass layoffs of probationary workers who began last month were illegal and ordered workers to be reinstated while waiting for new disputes.
The decision did not prevent agencies from dismissing workers, but questioned the way mass layoffs were conducted. The court said the agencies should have followed the rules for conducting mass layoffs.
Probationary workers usually have less than one year of service in their current functions, although some are long -standing federal employees.
Bredar, in a brief order on Tuesday (18), said that it seemed that the agencies “made significant progress toward compliance” with their decision. He ordered agencies to update him about progress in the reintegration of workers until Monday afternoon and said he expected “substantial compliance.”
Bredar’s decision came in a lawsuit filed by 19 states led by Democrats and Washington, who said mass layoffs would trigger an increase in unemployment and greater demand for social services provided by states.
Maryland Attorney General’s office Anthony Brown, who is leading the process, said she was reviewing the case.
The Trump government called on Bredar’s decision and on Monday he asked Richmond’s court of appeals, Virginia, to suspend the decision while awaiting the outcome of the case.
Old workers in probationary stage of the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, the IRS and the General Services Administration (GSA) told Reuters that they received emails saying they were being reinstated with full payment but placed on administrative license.
A probationary worker who was reinstated at GSA, who supervises government properties, said he still hopes to be fired, but again receiving payment and benefits is a short -term relief. “My family has health insurance and gives me a little track to find out what comes next,” he said.
Decision of San Francisco
Hours before Buddar issued his decision of March 13, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered probationary workers to be reinstated in six agencies, including five also covered by the Bredar Order and the US Department of Defense. The government also appealed from this decision.
District Judge William Alsup, in an order on Monday criticized the government’s decision to put employees probative on administrative license instead of sending them back to work. He said this was not in accordance with his order to reintegrate the workers because he would not restore the government services his order intended.
The US Department of Justice, in a lawsuit in response to Alsup on Tuesday, said that putting workers on leave was the first of a series of stages to reintegrate them completely and that “administrative license is not being used to circumvent the demand for reintegration.”
In Baltimore lawsuits on Monday night, the agency’s employees said they had reinstated all dismissed employees or were working to do so. They said they bring back a large number of workers caused confusion and turmoil.
Employees also noted that a court decision reversing the Bredar order would allow agencies to dismiss workers again, subjecting them to various changes in their employment status in a matter of weeks.
“The tremendous uncertainty associated with this confusion and these administrative charges prevent supervisors from properly managing their workforce,” wrote Mark Green, assistant secretary of the US Interior Department, in one of the processes. “Working hours and assignments are effectively being linked to the schedules of hearings and instructions defined by the courts.”
Bredar scheduled an audience for March 26 on whether to keep his decision in force, awaiting the outcome of the process, which may take months or more to be resolved.
This content was originally published in Trump government reintegrates 25,000 workers dismissed after a court order on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil

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