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 in San Francisco ordered the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to rescind its instructions directing federal agencies to dismiss thousands of probationary workers Thursday. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said OPM had no authority to order the mass firings,

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to rescind memos that directed agencies across the federal government to fire probationary employees, finding they were