On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth of Washington, D.C., decided that the US Agency for Global Media could not carry out a force reduction that would have eliminated 532 full time federal employment.
The great bulk of its remaining employees are represented by those workers.
The agency's acting CEO, Kari Lake, declared in late August that the layoffs would begin on Tuesday. However, until the judge decides on a plaintiff's underlying motion to stop the decrease in force, the agency's status quo is maintained.
The Republican administration of President Donald Trump was earlier ordered by Lamberth to bring VOA's programming back to levels that align with its statutory duty to "serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news."
Additionally, he prevented Lake from dismissing Michael Abramowitz as director of VOA.
