{"id":310324,"date":"2025-10-17T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310324\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:02:28","slug":"department-of-interior-to-start-layoffs-monday-union-says-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310324\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Interior to Start Layoffs Monday, Union Says (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Interior is preparing mass layoffs beginning Monday despite a federal judge\u2019s order<\/a> prohibiting firings due to the shutdown, a federal employee union said Thursday. <\/p>\n

The American Federation of Government Employees said in a court filing that its attorneys learned through \u201cmultiple credible sources\u201d that the Department of the Interior is preparing to move forward with a widespread reduction in force on Oct. 20. <\/p>\n

The union in its filing<\/a> said it reached out to the government\u2019s attorneys to confirm the Oct. 20 layoffs and received a response saying only that the government would produce the information by a Friday deadline.<\/p>\n

Judge Susan Illston of the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted the union<\/a>\u2018s request for an urgent hearing on Friday, in addition to moving up the deadline for the government to disclose its layoff plans to 11 a.m. Pacific time.<\/p>\n

Illston had issued a temporary restraining order<\/a> Wednesday prohibiting federal agencies from engaging in additional reductions in force and requiring the government to produce a list of employees fired during the shutdown and any future layoffs by 5 p.m. Friday. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration had already fire more than 4,100 workers at nearly half a dozen agencies last Friday, which didn\u2019t include the Department of the Interior. Illston\u2019s restraining order included all agencies where AFGE members worked. <\/p>\n

The case is AFGE v. OMB<\/a>, N.D. Cal., No. 3:25-cv-08302, 10\/16\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Interior is preparing mass layoffs beginning Monday despite a federal judge\u2019s order prohibiting firings due…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":310325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[82448,149859,51,10842,50,52041,94000,52],"class_list":["post-310324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-discharge-of-employee","tag-government-employees","tag-headlines","tag-mass-layoffs","tag-news","tag-reductions-in-force","tag-temporary-restraining-orders","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115388700684047705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}