The ruling is a victory for federal worker unions that argued several agencies violated a prohibition on RIFs in Congress’s shutdown-ending resolution.

Pseudonymous declarations from four federal workers paint a picture of a policy “having its intended impact” of politicizing agency work, an attorney for the plaintiffs says.

While the shutdown resolution undid and paused RIFs, the State Department told workers it planned to finalize their separations Friday.

The company is not publicly listed as part of the new portal project in federal spending records.

A bill from Sens. Blunt Rochester, Hirono and Schiff charges the departments of Labor, Commerce and Education with studying AI’s effect on the workforce and awarding grants…

Many Education and State workers are still in the dark, while dozens of SBA employees were told their RIFs were halted only to be told a day…

A workers union contends more than 200 ED staff could see their RIFs halted under the broad language of Congress’s funding deal.

Changing furloughed staffers’ neutral automatic email replies to messaging that blamed Democrats for the shutdown infringed upon their First Amendment rights, per the ruling.

The suit says the changes go “far beyond” the “lawful use of the presidential bully pulpit.”

Former data staff from the agency say they’re especially concerned about large transfers of data and the future of grants administration, after already seeing mismanagement and delays.