Bloomberg The National of Institutes of Health laid off another 200 employees as part of the health department’s large-scale reduction-in-force carried out last month, with plans to bring back a similar number of employees for other areas.
The agency on May 2 sent notices to “less than 250 employees” that they were affected by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ reduction-in-force implemented April 1, according to an HHS official.
The HHS official said the same number of employees will be brought back in critical areas.
The layoffs, as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce to size of federal workforce, targeted 1,200 employees at the NIH, which sought to centralize procurement, human resources, and communications across its 27 institutes and centers.