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CDC begs some laid off workers to come back
From RawStory
Link: https://www.rawstory.com/cdc-fired-workers/
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are frantically trying to bring in hundreds of workers fired in a mass Trump administration purge back into work, reported The Associated Press on Wednesday.
"A message seen by the AP was sent with the subject line, 'Read this e-mail immediately,'" reported Mike Stobbe. "It said that 'after further review and consideration,' a Feb. 15 termination notice has been rescinded and the employee was cleared to return to work on Wednesday. 'You should return to duty under your previous work schedule,' it said. 'We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused.'"
Altogether, around 180 people who were terminated from the CDC under the original order were told to report back to work.
"It’s not clear how many of the reinstated employees returned to work Wednesday. And it’s also unclear whether the employees would be spared from widespread job cuts that are expected soon across government agencies," said the report.
However, this marks only the latest in a series of similar missteps made as Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk try to downsize the federal government, only to realize some of the dismissed workers were critical. The federal government was also forced to frantically rehire terminated workers from the National Nuclear Safety Administration, as well as bird flu experts laid off from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the middle of an outbreak that, in addition to posing the risk of a deadly human pandemic, is causing a critical egg shortage.
"A message seen by the AP was sent with the subject line, 'Read this e-mail immediately,'" reported Mike Stobbe. "It said that 'after further review and consideration,' a Feb. 15 termination notice has been rescinded and the employee was cleared to return to work on Wednesday. 'You should return to duty under your previous work schedule,' it said. 'We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused.'"
Altogether, around 180 people who were terminated from the CDC under the original order were told to report back to work.
"It’s not clear how many of the reinstated employees returned to work Wednesday. And it’s also unclear whether the employees would be spared from widespread job cuts that are expected soon across government agencies," said the report.
However, this marks only the latest in a series of similar missteps made as Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk try to downsize the federal government, only to realize some of the dismissed workers were critical. The federal government was also forced to frantically rehire terminated workers from the National Nuclear Safety Administration, as well as bird flu experts laid off from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the middle of an outbreak that, in addition to posing the risk of a deadly human pandemic, is causing a critical egg shortage.