Fight over government layoffs continues as shutdown drags on
(NPR) A federal judge in San Francisco will weigh Tuesday whether to indefinitely halt the Trump administration's mass layoffs of federal employees during the government shutdown.
The hearing comes almost two weeks after U.S. District Judge Susan Illston temporarily paused thousands of layoffs, known as RIFs, or reductions-in-force, at agencies where the federal employee unions that brought the lawsuit, including the American Federation of Government Employees, have members or bargaining units.
The Trump administration has pushed back. It's argued first, that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the case, and second, that the unions have failed to show that they are suffering irreparable harm as a result of the administration's actions.
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