{"id":9389,"date":"2025-05-07T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9389"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:42:09","slug":"rfk-jr-hits-nih-with-more-layoffs-plans-to-bring-others-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/07\/rfk-jr-hits-nih-with-more-layoffs-plans-to-bring-others-back\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Hits NIH With More Layoffs, Plans to Bring Others Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/health-law-and-business\/rfk-jr-hits-nih-with-more-layoffs-plans-to-bring-others-back\">Bloomberg<\/a> The National of Institutes of Health laid off another 200 employees as part of the health department\u2019s large-scale reduction-in-force carried out last month, with plans to bring back a similar number of employees for other areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency on May 2 sent notices to \u201cless than 250 employees\u201d that they were affected by the US Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 reduction-in-force implemented April 1, according to an HHS official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HHS official said the same number of employees will be brought back in critical areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/health-law-and-business\/widespread-cuts-at-federal-health-department-hit-cdc-nih-fda\">layoffs<\/a>, as part of the Trump administration\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/health-law-and-business\/rfk-jr-hits-nih-with-more-layoffs-plans-to-bring-others-back\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"UF WJn xp G\">UF WJn xp G<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg The National of Institutes of Health laid off another 200 employees as part of the health department\u2019s 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 \u201cless than 250 employees\u201d that they were affected by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}