The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday brought back around 300 employees it had dismissed through a reduction in force. It will now provide a one-to-one "substitution” to even out the rescinded reductions in force with new cuts, according to an internal email obtained by Government Executive .

A federal judge extended on Thursday a temporary block on a bid by President Donald Trump's administration to lay off hundreds of thousands of federal employees, saying he needed permission from Congress before restructuring the U.

The unions representing workers at the CDC and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services continues to gut frontline science and shut down life-saving public health programs,

Among the laid-off scientists is Richard Youle, who has worked at NIH since 1978. He is a distinguished investigator, a title reserved for the most respected researchers. Youle won the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in 2021 for his work on Parkinson’s disease.

Labor unions say layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are threatening science even as some

A coalition of unions, nonprofits and municipalities will urge a federal judge on Thursday to extend her temporary block on President Donald Trump's administration implementing mass layoffs at federal agencies,

U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger said Trump administration officials lack the authority to unilaterally cancel the screening program for black lung.

The union representing local telephone workers fears cutbacks at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration hamstring efforts to protect workers.

Letters reversing the layoffs arrived a day before House and Senate hearings with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. where he was expected to face questions about the layoffs.