GSA backs off planned layoffs within its technology team after court order

The General Services Administration is abandoning plans for additional layoffs within its Technology Transformation Services after a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must pause any layoffs underway and rescind layoffs issued since the start of the government shutdown on Oct. 1.

TTS director Thomas Shedd told employees via email this week that the agency is rescinding the notices of an intention to issue a reduction in force, or layoff, that it sent to employees within the TTS Office of Awards, Regulatory and Oversight Systems and its Digital Services Division in April. 

TTS oversees technology solutions like the government’s identity proofing system, Login.gov; FedRAMP, a security standards program for cloud products and services; and Cloud.gov, a shared service for government agencies to move to the cloud.

Shedd told staff in March that the TTS workforce would be cut in half as the team narrowed ...