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Confusion over VA worker dismissals irks advocates, lawmakers

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Department leaders have declined to provide more information on recent layoffs amid rumors of looming additional staff cuts.

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San Antonio Express-News

VA fires workers at clinics, hospitals in San Antonio, Austin and Houston

The firings hit facilities in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Waco and Temple. The VA said the scale of the layoffs was 'small' but refused to divulge a number.

2 days ago

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Military Times

Confusion over VA worker dismissals irks advocates, lawmakers

Department leaders have declined to provide more information on recent layoffs amid rumors of looming additional staff cuts.

3 days ago·Vienna, United States

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Federal News Network

VA reinstates some fired employees, but 36 senators push for rehiring all 1,000 back

The Department of Veterans Affairs is in the process of reinstating some of the probationary employees it fired last week. But Senate VA Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and 35 other Senate Democrats are calling on the VA to go one step further, and re-hire all 1,000 of its recently terminated probationary employees. The VA has officially exempted many of its frontline employees from a governmentwide hiring freeze, the Offic…

3 days ago

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Iowa Starting Line

VA shifts explanation as agency dismisses over 1,000 employees; Iowa cuts unclear

The US Department of Veterans Affairs has dismissed more than 1,000 probationary employees just weeks after assuring stakeholders that a federal hiring freeze would not impact operations, raising questions about consistency in the agency’s messaging. Iowa has two major VA health systems in Des Moines and Iowa City. The Veterans Affairs department claimed in January that despite federal personnel purges, things would be fine. The VA had a list o…

3 days ago

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