At the beginning of the month, the U.S. State Department notified nearly 250 U.S.-based diplomats that mass layoffs—first announced in July—would go into effect on Dec. 5. The layoffs were delayed because of a mandatory 120-day administrative leave period, which ended in November amid the federal government shutdown, during which many nonessential government activities were paused for lack of funding.
The union representing U.S. Foreign Service officers is taking the Trump administration to court next week over the White House’s efforts to force through mass layoffs despite a recent spending law that appeared to offer hundreds of diplomats a reprieve to stay in their jobs into the new year.
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