WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday pushed back to Monday a deadline for U.S. government employees to opt into the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” program offering workers nearly eight months of pay and benefits to leave their jobs. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole in Boston, at the urging of unions representing more than […]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday pushed back to Monday a deadline for U.S. government employees to opt into the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” program offering workers nearly eight months of pay and benefits to leave their jobs.
U.S. District Judge George O’Toole in Boston, at the urging of unions representing more than 800,000 federal employees, pausing a Thursday deadline for workers to decide whether to take the offer while the unions pursue a legal challenge to the program.
(This story has been corrected to remove the reference to the temporary restraining order, in paragraph 2)
(Reporting by Daniel Wiessner; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Alexia Garamfalvi)