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• Agencies are placing reinstated employees in leave status. Judge says that violates his order - March 18, 2025

• By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  The Trump administration is not complying with a federal judge’s order to reinstate fired probationary employees, with the court ruling that the placement of those workers on administrative leave is failing to meet his demands.
  
  Instead, said Judge William Alsup, from the U.S. District Court for Northern California, employees should be placed fully back in their roles and permitted to carry out their normal duties. All six agencies impacted by Alsup’s order to reinstate employees fired during their probationary periods last month—as well as virtually all of those impacted by a broader, similar ruling from a federal court in Maryland—have placed those workers in a paid leave status. The workers have largely not regained access to their emails or work systems and have been instructed not to report for duty.

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