The temporary reprieve for USAID’s direct employees who either had been or were intended to be placed on paid administrative leave has been extended for one week, through Feb. 21.
Following a hearing Thursday, Judge Carl Nichols extended the temporary restraining order that required the Trump administration to reinstate about 2,000 employees who had been placed on leave and prevented it from placing an additional 2,200 on leave last week. The lawsuit is brought by the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees, two unions representing USAID employees. Oxfam America joined the lawsuit as a plaintiff on Thursday before the hearing.
Nichols also made one change in the wording of the order — saying that no USAID employees serving abroad shall be “involuntarily evacuated” from their host countries, rather than barring the government from evacuating any employees.
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