HHS revokes some layoff notices, including to 9/11 program
Source: CBS News
Updated on: May 6, 2025 / 6:49 PM EDT
The Department of Health and Human Services formally revoked some layoff notices on Tuesday, multiple federal health officials told CBS News, restoring some staff at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.
Tuesday's letters to laid-off workers notifying them that their employment was being restored went a step further from some previous reinstatements touted by department officials, which often amounted only to a request for civil servants to continue working for a few more weeks to wind down or prepare to hand off their assignments.
"You previously received a notice regarding the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) upcoming reduction in force (RIF). That notice is hereby revoked," read the letter received by some workers at the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides health care services to 9/11 first responders and survivors.
At least a dozen employees of the World Trade Center Health Program were told that their layoff notices were revoked. CBS News
A move last week to cut 15 employees of the 9/11 program, as part of a larger wave of eliminations that gutted most of the work from the CDC's National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, prompted outcry from New York lawmakers.
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