The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that the Trump administration is not required to begin reinstating 16,000 fired probationary workers across six federal agencies, granting the government’s request for relief from a California federal judge’s order.
In a short order, the court said various organizations lacked standing to challenge the Trump administration’s mass firings of probationary employees. The judge had ordered the employees reinstated after finding that the terminations were carried out at the direction of the Office of Personnel Management, which he said lacked authority to impose such orders.