Washington, March 25 -- The Trump administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend a federal judge's ruling which required six federal agencies to rehire 16,000 probationary employees who had been recently laid off.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Veterans Affairs Department, the Agriculture Department, the Defense Department, the Energy Department, the Interior Department, and the Treasury Department to immediately rehire more than 16,000 probationary federal employees.
Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California stated that the Office of Personnel Management had illegally reduced federal agency staff.
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