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 came a few days after President Donald Trump moved to strip their workers Collective negotiation rights In HHS and other agencies throughout the government.
in National 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 Health Robert F. Kennedy Junior Last 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 dollars Addiction services Community 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.
Two lines with hundreds of employees wrapped around the HHS headquarters building on Tuesday morning. Wait for workers in cold spring weather to be wiped individually to reach the building. Some said they were waiting to find out if they still had jobs. Others gathered in local cafes and lunch sites after their removal, and discovered that it was eliminated after decades of service.
One of them asked loudly if it was a joke on April’s harsh lie.
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 a senior leader of the agency, and they spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid revenge.
An email seen in the Associated Press shows that some of the senior employees in Betisda, Maryland, the campus who were placed on leave, offered a possible transfer to the Indian health service in locations that include Alaska and were granted until the end of Wednesday to respond.
In the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), dozens of employees who organize medicines and tobacco products, including the entire office responsible for formulating new regulations for electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products. The notifications came The head of tobacco in the Food and Drug Administration has been removed from his position. Elsewhere in the agency, more than ten press officers and communications supervisors have been notified that their jobs will be eliminated.
Democratic Senator Patti Murray from Washington predicted that the cuts will have repercussions when they hit natural disasters or infectious diseases, such as The 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 in Food 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 signed a Republican, Executive This will The end of the mass bargaining For 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 be given more power to dismantle the people’s government as much as resistance from dedicated civil service employees – which weakens the ability of the federal government to serve the American people.”
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The Associated Press Laurent Nergard, Amanda City and Matthew Peron contributed in Washington and Mike Stop in New York. ___
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