Judge William Alsup, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The Trump administration must rehire thousands of probationary workers it fired in multiple agencies, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled on Thursday.

The Office of Personnel Management and its acting director, Charles Ezell, lacked the authority to fire the workers, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said. The departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury were directed to immediately offer job reinstatement to employees terminated in mid-February. Alsup 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 regarding each person.


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