A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday extended indefinitely the pause on the Trump administration’s buyout plan for federal employees, just hours before the deadline.
The plan offered over 2 million remote federal workers eight months of pay and benefits if they didn’t want to return to working full-time in the office. Over 65,000 federal workers have taken the offer, according to officials.
Monday’s ruling is the second extension of the program. Unions have argued that employees might find themselves out of luck when government funding terminates in March, as Congress hasn’t authorized the spending for the program.
The pause is expected to continue until the judge rules on a preliminary injunction in the case.
