Air traffic controllers who are not dedicated enough to come to work regularly during the government shutdown will be terminated from their jobs, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said during an Oct. 9 interview with Fox Business.
“We need more controllers, but we need the best and the brightest, the dedicated controllers. And if we have some on our staff that aren’t dedicated like we need, we’re going to let them go. I can’t have people not showing up for work,” Duffy said, referring to such controllers as “problem children.”
Duffy said he has seen a noticeable rise in air traffic controllers calling in sick amid the ongoing shutdown….