100 fired CDC employees press RFK Jr. to rehire them, citing shifting guidance
In a letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 100 former CDC employees say due process was not followed in firing them and seek reinstatement.
Dozens of former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees sent a letter to agency leaders on Monday asking to be reinstated, citing shifting guidance from the government office that triggered their layoffs.
The workers, who were all in their “probationary” period at the CDC, make up about 14% of the staff who were terminated on Valentine’s Day as part of sweeping cuts across federal agencies. They were previously employed in divisions that oversee cancer prevention, foodborne diseases, infectious disease readiness, overdose prevention, global health, and a variety of other matters, according to a copy of the letter obtained by STAT.
