The layoffs followed a March announcement by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who called for a major department overhaul.

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized the layoffs of thousands of employees after a Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings ...

Despite rehiring hundreds of FDA, CDC and NIH employees, the Department of Health and Human Services is still a skeleton of ...

"Given the Supreme Court's ruling, HHS is now permitted to move forward with a portion of its RIF. Accordingly, you are ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is laying off certain employees who were notified months ago of the ...

HHS faces other legal challenges over its workforce cuts. A class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia claims the department relied on “hopelessly error-ridden” data when it ...

Thousands of employees across HHS were terminated Monday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the Trump ...

Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked ...

While layoffs at other agencies, like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were reversed before Kennedy’s testimony, that hasn ...

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that he has rehired 942 employees who were laid off from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of ...