US Agencies Say Judge’s Order Won’t Stop Some Shutdown Layoffs

The Treasury Department and several other federal agencies told a US judge that her order temporarily halting layoffs tied to the government shutdown doesn’t apply to more than 2,000 employees who have already received firing notices.
In sworn declarations filed Friday, officials with the departments of the Treasury, Health and Human Services and Homeland Security said their reductions-in-force, or RIFs, didn’t affect programs or activities involving members of the unions that had sued and won a temporary restraining order from the judge.