Administration reinstates hundreds of NIOSH employees placed on leave

The Trump administration reinstated on Tuesday hundreds of employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who had been placed on administrative leave in April. The workers are all staff members of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a C.D.C. unit charged with preventing work-related injuries.

Last April, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cut about 2,400 positions from the C.D.C. and placed about 90 percent of the roughly 1,000 NIOSH employees on administrative leave, with layoffs scheduled to take effect in June. A court order in late May halted the terminations. Pressure from some members of Congress had led earlier to the reinstatement of about 328 NIOSH employees, including those who provided services to survivors of the 9/11 attacks; late Tuesday the administration brought back the remaining workers.

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