A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday halted the Trump administration’s plans to layoff thousands of federal employees in the wake of the government shutdown, ruling that the administration could not proceed with any new reductions-in-force (RIF) notices issued as a result of the shutdown.

US District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction on the finding that the plaintiffs, a coalition of federal employee unions, demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits that the layoffs violated administrative statutes and federal labor protections.

The lawsuit was filed earlier this month by several labor unions, including the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the American Federatio

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