Some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees who received termination notices were later told that they are not being dismissed, according to the CDC’s parent agency.
“The employees who received incorrect notifications were never separated from the agency and have all been notified that they are not subject to the reduction in force,” Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told The Epoch Times in an Oct. 12 email.
HHS did not respond to a request for more information, including how many CDC employees were wrongly informed they were being laid off.
Office of Management and Budget official Stephen Billy said in a court filing on Oct. 10 that the office in September told senior officials with agencies that are without funding due to the government shutdown to start reductions-in-force once funding expired on Sept. 30. This applied to employees who were working on projects “not consistent with the President’s priorities,” he said….