A federal appeals court on Wednesday paused a lower court’s ruling ordering the government to rehire around 24,000 probationary workers.
“The Government is likely to succeed in showing the district court lacked jurisdiction over Plaintiffs’ claims,” the 2-1 ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said, staying an order from last month that the workers be rehired.
The panel said it was pausing the ruling until it decides the government’s full appeal.
The decision effectively ends the last injunction directing that the workers get their jobs back. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a similar ruling, halting a California judge’s order requiring several federal agencies to reinstate around 16,000 workers the Trump administration had sought to fire.
