At least 600 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees received permanent termination notices as part of a broad restructuring and downsizing intended to make health agencies more responsive and efficient. The American Federation of Government Employees said many people had not yet received notices and cited a lack of transparency from HHS about who is being laid off. The permanent cuts include about 100 staff who worked in violence prevention, coming shortly after a deadly shooting on the CDC campus. HHS sent layoff notices on April 1 to thousands as lawsuits over the overhaul played out. A federal judge issued a preliminary ruling protecting employees in several CDC groups, including those focused on smoking, reproductive health, environmental health, workplace safety and birth defects.
At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are receiving permanent termination notices in the wake of a recent court decision that protected some CDC employees from layoffs but not others.The notices went out this week and many people have not yet received them, according to the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 2,000 dues-paying members at CDC.
The permanent cuts include about 100 people who worked in violence prevention. Some employees noted those cuts come less than two weeks after a man fired at least 180 bullets into the CDC's campus and killed a police officer."The irony is devastating: The very experts trained to understand, interrupt and prevent this kind of violence were among those whose jobs were eliminated," some of the affected employees wrote in a blog post last week.
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