The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued new guidance Tuesday, telling federal agencies they hold the reins on terminating probationary employees, just days after a judge paused a wave of firings that could affect up to 30,

A federal judge in San Francisco finds the mass firings of probationary government employees by the Trump administration were probably unlawful.

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