The government said in a court filing that Charles Ezell, who issued the memos that agencies interpreted as orders to fire thousands of employees, would not appear in court Thursday.

A federal judge on Monday rejected a request from the Trump administration to cancel an evidentiary hearing set for later this week in a major case concerning the government’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce,

Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Charles Ezell won’t testify at a March 13 hearing in a lawsuit by government employee unions challenging the Trump Administration’s mass layoffs of federal workers,

A federal judge is requiring the head of the Office of Personnel Management to testify Thursday about the mass firing of probationary employees.