New York (AP) – The best public health agency in the country claims that around 180 employees who were dismissed two weeks ago can return to work.
E -mail was published Tuesday in certain disease control and employee prevention centers that received dismissal notices last month, according to current and former CDC employees.
A message seen by the AP was sent with the object line, “read this email immediately”. He said that “after an additional examination and consideration”, a notice of dismissal of February 15 was canceled and the employee was authorized to return to work on Wednesday. “You should go back to service as part of your previous work schedule,” he said. “We apologize for any disturbance that it may have caused.”
About 180 people received reintegration emails, according to two federal health officials who were informed of the count but who were not allowed to discuss it and spoke under the cover of anonymity.
We do not know how many reintegrated employees returned to work on Wednesday. And it is also difficult not to know if the employees would be spared by generalized job features which are expected soon In all government agencies.
The CDC is the last federal agency that tries to bring workers back shortly after their dismissal as part of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk Cost reduction purge. Similar inversions have been made among the employees responsible for Monitoring of medical devicesfood security, Bird flu response,, nuclear weapons And national parks.
The Atlanta -based CDC is responsible for protecting Americans from epidemics and other public health threats. Before job cuts, the agency had around 13,000 employees.
Last month, Trump administration officials told the CDC that nearly 1,300 of the agency’s probationary employees would be released. This statement has changed quickly, because the number that really obtained termination opinions proved to be 700 to 750.
With 180 other people who have now said that they could return, the actual number of CDC employees ended so far seemed somewhere around 550. But federal health officials have confirmed any details.
The Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month promised ” radical transparency “In the department, but HHS officials did not provide details on the changes to the CDC staff and did not respond to requests sent by email on Tuesday and Wednesday. A spokesman for the agency, Andrew Nixon, previously told the AP only that the CDC had more full-time employees after the job cuts than before the COVVI-19 pandemic.
Those who received reintegration emails included epiber stakeholders in two stock programs – two -year training prepares recent graduates to enter the public health labor market through field experience and a laboratory program This means that doctorate professionals.
American senator Raphael Warnock celebrated the reintegrated, but said it was not enough.
“Today’s announcement is welcome relief, but until all the employees of the dismissed CDC are restored, our country’s public health and national security will continue to be in danger,” Warnock, a Democrat in Georgia, said on Wednesday.
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The author of the Associated Press Michelle R. Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.
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