Interior Department reveals plans to fire hundreds of National Park Service employees
The Interior Department aims to cut 2,000 jobs amid shutdown, with National Park Service losing 25% of staff last year, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.
- The Interior Department plans to terminate over 2,000 employees across five government workers unions.
- The largest number of job cuts, more than 770, would land in the secretary's office, including customer service and communications.
- The lawsuit against the job cuts was originally filed by two unions, but three more unions later joined.
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2,000 Federal Public-Land Employees Could Lose Jobs Amid Shutdown
The Department of Interior will likely cut another 2,000 jobs from the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Geological Survey, Department officials announced Monday in a court filing. The planned cuts were announced in the middle of a government shutdown, but according to sources familiar with the situation, the reduction in force, as it’s called, has been planned for months. A U.S. District Court…
Planned Trump staffing cuts loom over National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife, Land Management
Cuts to the federal agencies that manage national parks, science and public lands are expected to result in firings across the West, Southeast and Great Lakes, among other places, Trump administration plans reveal. In a court filing this week, the Interior Department said it plans to fire some 2,050 employees, including 272 at the National Park Service (NPS), 335 at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 143 from the Fish and Wildlife Service and 47…
Interior Department cuts would hit BLM in Utah and major national parks, per new court filing
The Department of the Interior plans to “imminently” fire at least 2,000 employees across the agency, including hundreds of people working at the National Park Service, the agency revealed in a Monday legal filing.
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