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• Agency RIF plans will remain secret for now after court blocks release - July 24, 2025

• As more agency layoffs appear imminent, an appeals court has intervened in allowing more details on the plans to be released.

  Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Federal agencies will not have to release its mass layoff plans after an appeals court granted the Trump administration’s request to delay a judge’s prior order, once again setting back efforts to block large-scale workforce reductions from moving forward.

  A U.S. district court in northern California ruled last week that most major agencies must turn over their reduction-in-force plans to the judge and plaintiffs who sued over the cuts. While those plans were not yet set to be made public, Judge Susan Illston said she wanted to review them in order to litigate whether they were following federal statutes. Agencies were also facing a requirement to publicly lay out around 70 RIF actions that were previously underway before Illston blocked them from moving forward. 

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