A temporary court order has allowed approximately 2,700 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.) to remain employed after facing imminent layoff. The Trump administration's initiative to reduce the agency's workforce and dismiss contractors caused widespread concern within the humanitarian aid sector. With a Supreme Court decision pending, employees are left facing an uncertain future, and the aid industry dependent on U.S.A.I.D. funding finds itself in a precarious situation as the agency’s operations could be drastically altered.
On Friday evening, just hours before the vast majority of them were set to have been suspended with pay or laid off, a court issued a limited, temporary order against the Trump administration's moves to shut down the agency.
The U.S.A.I.D. workforce, and the aid industry that relies in large part on the agency's funding, is still acutely in limbo.
The case, which was brought on behalf of unions representing the workers, is expected to go to the Supreme Court, and it is unclear whether the jobs will ever exist again.
The Trump administration's announcement this week that U.S.A.I.D. would dismiss almost all of its contractors and that most Foreign Service officers and other direct hires would be put on indefinite administrative leave set off a panic around the globe.
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