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Investing.com -- At least 600 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees are receiving permanent termination notices following a recent court decision that protected some CDC workers from layoffs but not others, according to the Associated Press.
The notices began going out this week, with many employees yet to receive them, according to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents over 2,000 dues-paying CDC members.
"Due to a staggering lack of transparency from HHS," the union stated Wednesday that it hasn’t received formal notices identifying which employees are being terminated.
Among those being cut are approximately 100 staff members who worked in violence prevention. Some affected employees noted in a blog post last week that these cuts come less than two weeks after an incident where a gunman fired at least 180 bullets into the CDC’s campus, killing a police officer.
"The irony is devastating: The very experts trained to understand, interrupt and prevent this kind of violence were among those whose jobs were eliminated," the employees wrote.
The layoffs are part of a broader restructuring that began on April 1, when the Department of Health and Human Services sent termination notices to thousands of employees at the CDC and other federal health agencies. Many of these workers have been on paid administrative leave since then while legal challenges proceeded.
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