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'Read this e-mail immediately': CDC tells about 180 fired employees to come back to work

apnews.com 'Read this e-mail immediately': CDC tells about 180 fired employees to come back to work

They were dismissed as part of President Donald Trump’s and billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting purge

Summary

The CDC has reinstated about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago as part of Trump and Musk’s purge.

The agency is among several now reversing layoffs, including those overseeing medical devices, food safety, bird flu response, nuclear weapons, and national parks. The total number of CDC terminations stands around 550.

Many reinstated workers were outbreak responders in public health fellowship programs.

Sen. Raphael Warnock welcomed the move but warned that continued cuts endanger public health and national security.

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Yeah, I'll come back....
For triple pay and a 4 day work week. Also if anyone fires me again I get a full year's pay as severance.

Why it sounds so familiar… oh yeah, when Elon took over Twitter, the same thing happened!

Yeah, no. It'd be renegotiation time. Lots more money, job security guarantee for the next four years, etc or I'd gamble with private sector.
- I believe government jobs tend to have pretty structured & compensation is public.
- Biotech has been in a slump for the past few years. Not an easy market for the relatively inexperienced.
  Spend 5-7y for PhD getting the shaft ends of being a student and employee that is extremely underpaid then enter the job market still being treated as a replaceable entry-level employee.
- You're not wrong, but it really does seem likely that the kind of people filling many of these positions aren't necessarily in it for their own betterment.
  
  It’s in the better interest of the American people to require a termination clause at this point. If it costs more to fire then there is some leverage against the administration.
- Public sector employment terms can't just be renegotiated on the fly. That used to be part of why they were relatively stable and safe.
  
  …except that’s precisely what the administration did: renegotiated employment terms on the fly, and this is them continuing to do so. I don’t see why critical employees shouldn’t use the leverage they clearly have.
  
  Except the terms were changed, by the administration. They opened the can of worms, I hope at least a few of the people make solid gains.
  
  No kidding. Yeah then I'd go back for a check and bail ASAP...

Good position for negotiations (not that an agreement under Trump -not even written down and signed- is worth shit)

"Tells".. How about, fuck off?
- "Begs" makes them sound weak and stupid, because it's true.

10 years salary up front or no deal.

Americans getting what they voted for.
As well as federal bodies allowing something to happen, then feeling the consequences.
- Other than the ~21% of the population under voting age and the ~48% of the voting electorate who voted for Harris / Walz. Everyone suffers under these changes except for the wealthy.

I hope those who are able to tell them to fuck off.

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