U.S. District Judge William Alsup Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate tens of thousands of illegally fired federal employees across six federal agencies.

Decision on probationary workers comes as Trump administration faces another lawsuit over effort to slash Education Department’s workforce.

A federal judge has ordered half a dozen federal agencies to “immediately” reinstate probationary employees fired last month as part of the Trump administration’s effort to rapidly shrink the federal workforce.

A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies. U.S.

A judge has ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate the jobs of probationary employees fired en masse by the Trump administration last month. Judge William Alsup called the sacking of these employees part of a "sham" strategy that aimed to circumvent proper procedures for reducing the federal workforce.

The firings were "based on a lie," judge says, who suggests he may extend his order beyond the roughly 24,000 already included.

Judge William Alsup directed the Trump administration to extend the offer to probationary workers fired last month across several agencies.

A federal judge on Thursday called the administration’s justification for firing thousands of workers with probationary status a “sham.”

The order reinstates a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, a key panel for federal workers' unions.