10,000 federal health workers are demobilized, as many discovered that they lost their jobs when their security badges did not succeed: “Is this a joke of April Fools?”
- Up to 10,000 workers It is expected to lose their jobs on Tuesday and others discover them while trying to enter the building, which no longer has jobs. The employees who are placed immediately are required to transfer their badges and mobile phones at the door. One of the employees waiting in a loud line said: “Is this a April lie joke?”
Employees all over the US Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services began receiving the chapter notifications on Tuesday in Comprehensive reform Ultimately, up to 10,000 people will rest. The notifications come a few days after President Donald Trump moved to strip their workers Collective negotiation rights In HHS and other agencies throughout the government.
inNational Institutes of HealthThe world’s leading health and medical agency, workers’ demobilization operations as a new director, Dr. Jae Bhatershaya, have occurred his first working day.
Minister of HealthRobert F. Kennedy JuniorLast week’s plan to reshape the department, which through its agencies, is responsible for tracking health trends and spreading diseases, conducting medical research and financing, and monitoring food and medicine safety, as well as from managing health insurance programs for about half of the country.
The plan will enhance agencies that oversee billions of dollarsAddiction servicesCommunity health centers under a new office called the administration for America’s health.
HHS workers ‘demobilization is expected to reduce 62,000 jobs, which leads to nearly a quarter of its employees – 10,000 jobs through workers’ demobilization and 10,000 other workers who took retirement and early voluntary semester.
In the National Institutes of Health, the discounts included at least four managers of the 27 national health institutes and centers who were placed on an administrative leave, and nearly a communications employees were terminated, according to one of the senior leaders of the agency, and he spoke provided that his identity is not disclosed to avoid revenge.
An email seen in the Associated Press shows that some of the senior employees in Betsda, Maryland, the campus who were placed on leave, offered a possible transfer to the Indian health service at locations that include Alaska and were granted until the end of Wednesday to respond.
Democratic Senator Patti Murray from Washington predicted that the cuts will have repercussions when they hit natural disasters or infectious diseases, such asThe outbreak of continuous measlesSpreading.
Murray said on Friday.
In addition to the demobilization of workers in federal health agencies, the discounts began in government and local health administrations as a result of HHS’s step last week to withdraw more than $ 11 billion of funds related to Covid-19. “Local and governmental health officials are still establishing influence, but some health departments have already identified hundreds of jobs that will be eliminated because of the missing money,” said local health officials and government are still holding influence, but some health departments have already identified the hundreds of jobs that will be eliminated because of the missing money, “some of them have already gone.”
Union representatives of HHS employees received a notification on Thursday that between 8,000 to 10,000 employees will be completed. Management leadership will target positions in human resources, purchases, finance and information technology. The positions in the “high cost areas” or that were considered “excess” are the axis of workers’ demobilization.
Kennedy criticized the department supervised by an ineffective “sprawling bureaucracy” in a video declaring restructuring. He said that the $ 1.7 trillion annual budget “failed to improve Americans.”
“I want to promise you now that we will do more with less.” Kennedy said.
On Thursday, the administration presented a detail of some discounts.
__ 3500 jobs inFood and Drug AdministrationWhich inspects and sets safety standards for medicines, medical devices and foods.
__ 2,400 jobs in the centers of control and prevention of diseases, which monitor the outbreak of infectious diseases and work with public health agencies at the country level.
__ 1,200 jobs at the National Institutes of Health.
__ 300 jobs at Medicare and Medicaid service centers, which oversee the market of care law at reasonable prices, Medicare and Medicaid.
At the Center for Disease Control, most employees have not been overturned, but the interest rose sharply this year as the Trump administration took steps to reduce the federal workforce. Nearly 2000 employees of the Disease Control Center in Atlanta belong to the local negotiation unit of the American Federation of Government employees, with hundreds of others who made a petition to join the last days that have been added.
But on Thursday night, Trump signedExecutive orderThis willThe end of the mass bargainingFor a large number of federal agencies, including the Center for Disease Control and Other Health Agencies.
He criticized the erosion of collective negotiation rights by some democratic legislators.
“President Trump’s attempt is a rude to strip the majority of federal employees of their union rights stealing these workers from their strong protection,” MP Gerald Connely and Bobby Scott, both of them from Virginia, said in a joint statement on Friday.
“This will not give Elon Musk more power to dismantle the people’s government as much as resistance from the civil service employees – which weakens the ability of the federal government to serve the American people.”
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
