Judge William Alsup, who presided over the case, said the administration’s argument was not credible and ordered both the Jan. 20 memo and the Feb. 13 directive to be rescinded. OPM has instead opted to edit the Jan. 20 memo.

The human capital agency updated guidance to say it’s “not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions.”

The memo comes in the wake of a court ruling that the Office of Personnel Management broke the law. The Trump administration has updated its guidance on so-called probationary employees after a court ruled the administration had illegally ordered their firing, saying the final choice rests with agencies.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to rescind memos that directed agencies across the federal government to fire probationary employees, finding they were

The Office of Personnel Management has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to identify probationary employees ahead of a mass firing. The reissued memo does not order fired workers reinstated.