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Pennsylvania governor says he wants to recruit laid-off federal workers to fill state job openings

  • Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order to accept federal government work experience as equivalent to state work experience for similar roles, to recruit laid-off federal workers to fill state job openings.
  • Pennsylvania has nearly 6,000 open positions for which former federal workers who lost their jobs could apply, across fields like civil engineering, nursing, corrections, and accounting.
  • Tax consultants say the layoffs of IRS employees will lead to longer wait times of 4 to 6 weeks for tax refunds, instead of the usual 3 weeks, due to having 7,000 fewer employees to process 140 million tax returns.
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Looking for a post-government job? There’s a database for that

Brian Levine is a one-time Justice Department prosecutor who also served at the state level and is now in private consulting. To help find people for his own, and for his clients’ talent pipelines, he’s maintains a database of former federal experts in a number of professions. You might even want to be on it. Levine joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share more. Interview transcript: Tom Temin: You were a long time lawyer. Seven years at…

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Pa.’s Gov. Shapiro signs order to recruit federal workers fired by Trump

Pennsylvania has "a unique opportunity to recruit federal workers who have significant experience and expertise" in jobs that are needed at the state level, the governor said Wednesday.

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Gov. Shapiro says he wants to recruit laid-off federal workers to fill state job openings

Pennsylvania’s governor signed an executive order Wednesday hoping to attract those workers, noting that the state, with a workforce of almost 82,000 people, has nearly 6,000 open positions for which federal workers who are losing their jobs could apply. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday that he wants his administration to try to fill openings in the state’s workforce by recruiting federal workers who might be losing or …

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Gov. Shapiro wants to recruit laid-off federal workers to fill Pennsylvania jobs

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he wants to recruit federal workers for job openings in the state’s workforce.

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Shapiro signs order to help fired federal employees get state jobs

Harrisburg, Pa. — Today, Governor Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2025-01 to help fill critical vacancies in the state workforce with experienced former federal employees who have specialized expertise in important fields like civil engineering, nursing, corrections, accounting, and more.The…

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Gov. Shapiro encourages fired federal workers to apply for thousands of state job openings

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said the state will recruit former federal employees who were recently fired as part of the Trump administration's DOGE initiative to reduce government waste. Shapiro said the state has about 5,600 job vacancies and needs nurses, accountants, civil engineers, emergency response personnel and other skilled workers.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal broke the news in Las Vegas, United States on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
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