The CDC is leaving workers stunned by first firing them and then hiring them after orders from the new Trump administration.
America’s leading public health agency claims 180 employees were fired two weeks ago and now they are being called back to their duties.
Emails were shared on Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probationary employees who received termination notices last month.
A message was shared by the AP who sent it with the subject line, ‘Read this email immediately’. It mentioned how, after thorough review and the right consideration, they were reversing the firing orders and clearing the workers to return to the office.
You should return to your previous duties and your work schedule. We do apologize for any kind of disruption that this might have caused, the statement went on to read.
Nearly 180 people got reinstatement emails as per two federal health officials who were briefed on the tally but were not authorized to discuss it and spoke on conditions of anonymity.
For now, it’s not clear that many of these reinstated employees returned to work or not.
It’s also not clear if these employees would be spared from widespread job cuts that are expected to take over soon across different agencies of the government. Clearly, it’s chaos trying to understand what exactly the Trump administration is trying to do.