The ruling applies to terminated employees in four divisions of HHS, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

HHS is reinstating more than 450 staff across multiple divisions within CDC, including an office focused on HIV prevention. This restores some staff let go under the DOGE initiative.

Some agencies are walking back planned layoffs, Trump administration says Other agencies are moving forward with RIFs and terminations, but official tells federal court some plans have changed.

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Public Health Under pressure, HHS reinstates hundreds of occupational health workers Reversing the layoffs would also bring logistical challenges for some affected employees, Sisler said.

The Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday allowing the Trump administration to move forward with restructuring federal agencies through executive power.

The Supreme Court last week ruled in an 8-1 decision that the Trump administration could resume its plans for mass layoffs, though a patchwork of injunctions means that some HHS employees are ...

The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff — 10,000 jobs through layoffs and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that recent mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to halt ...