POLITICO reported on June 11 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)” is reinstating more than 400 people who had received layoff notices, according to an email from CDC leadership to employees seen by POLITICO.”
POLITICO noted that the rehiring was announced internally on Wednesday and “marks the largest number of employees that the agency has asked back to date.”
Further, “Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention, and around a third are in the National Center for Environmental Health.”
The article added that the other agencies reinstating employees include the National Center for Health Statistics, Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, Office of Human Resources, Global Health Center, Office of Acquisition Services and Office of Communications.
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Janette Wider is Editor-in-Chief for Healthcare Purchasing News.
