Layoffs at Minnesota Department of Health delayed

Minnesota Department of Health delays layoffs following federal court order

ST. PAUL — Layoffs at the Minnesota Department of Health are delayed as the result of a temporary restraining order in a federal court case. On April 1, the state health department sent layoff notices to 170 employees, about 10% of its workforce, after the the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pulled $11 billion in grants to public health agencies across the country — including $226 million from MDH — in late March. Shortly after the …

Minnesota Department of Health delays layoffs, separations

(ST PAUL, MINN) – The Minnesota Department of Health is delaying layoffs made public Monday. A temporary restraining order issued by the federal district court in Rhode Island has given officials ‘additional short-term certainty’ around funding, which allows for the delay of the layoff process. Beginning April 1, the Department sent both layoff and separation notices to approximately 170 employees due to the terminated federal grants. Those layo…

Layoffs at Minnesota Department of Health delayed

A judge will review billions of federal dollars the government recently cut from state health budgets.

MDH worker layoffs delayed due to temporary court restraining order

A ruling issued by a federal judge will effectively delay Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) workers from being laid off

Health and Human Services layoffs spark child care cost worries

The NewsThe Department of Health and Human Services has fired nearly half of the workers at the federal agency that oversees child care, and advocates and Democratic lawmakers are warning it could destabilize the already-expensive US child care system.The Administration of Children and Families — which funnels federal funds to state governments and community organizations for things like child care, early education, foster care, and child protec…

Experts say federal funding cuts represent threat to families

Stanford University researchers are hoping their findings on the well-being of young children and their caregivers and how they suffer when critical federal relief programs are defunded can influence officials. The post Experts say federal funding cuts represent threat to families appeared first on Palo Alto Online.