United States District Judge James Bredar ordered the mass rehiring of fired federal workers, following an earlier decision of the same kind by District Judge William Alsup.
Bredar's sweeping order applies to the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Labor, State, Transportation and Treasury, among others. "In this case, the government conducted massive layoffs, but it gave no advance notice. It claims it wasn’t required to because, it says, it dismissed each one of these thousands of probationary employees for 'performance' or other individualized reasons," Bredar wrote in his ruling.
"On the record before the Court, this isn't true. There were no individualized assessments of employees. They were all just fired. Collectively," he added.
