U.S. District Judge William Alsup instructed the Office of Personnel Management to inform certain federal agencies it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees. The ruling is

A federal judge ruled Thursday the Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary government workers was probably illegal, according to multiple outlets, ordering the Office of Personnel Management to rescind directives that triggered the layoffs after the Trump administration recently indicated the largest round of layoffs to several federal agencies yet is forthcoming.