Healthcare Dive spoke to more than one dozen current and former HHS employees, all of whom shared elements of the reduction-in-force, or RIF, that don’t align with how the process — an ...

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One employee, who facilitates travel for HHS employees, says the RIF “set federal travel back to processes that were in place prior to the first Electronic Travel System contract in 2004.” ...

An attached memo described the layoffs as part of the HHS’ efforts to improve efficiency. “This RIF is necessary to reshape the workforce of HHS,” the memo said. Unionized HHS employees also ...

As spring arrived in the mid-Atlantic region, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. followed through with a previously announced Reduction in Force (RIF ...

Their dismissal mirrored others across HHS, which came without warning and left officials puzzled as to why they were "RIF'ed" — as in "reduction in force," the bureaucratic language used to ...

Health agency staffers describe a week of widespread uncertainty about who still has a job and how the work will get done as ...

Isabella Cueto covers the leading causes of death and disability: chronic diseases. Her focus includes autoimmune conditions and diseases of the lungs, kidneys, liver (and more). She writes about ...

HHS staff are also crowdsourcing advice. One document obtained by NPR advises employees not to “preemptively resign.” “If you are laid off in a RIF you have rights, possible severance pay ...

HHS did not respond to an inquiry into why the notices were delayed or when they would go out. Several employees were told to expect RIF notices to hit inboxes on Friday. When that did not happen ...