The move comes amid a government-wide effort to cut probationary workers by the Department of Government Efficiency task ...

Almost half of the probationary workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others at the National Institutes of Health are being forced out as President Donald Trump overhauls ...

Some of the fired workers stood outside the Atlanta-based CDC’s large security entrance on Clifton Road waving signs in protest.

Those workers make about one-tenth of CDC's total staff, according to the report. The verbal notice came from the U.S.

The CDC eliminated 1,300 probationary workers. Employees were given four weeks paid administrative leave and notified the morning of Feb. 14, as first reported by the Associated Press. Thousands ...

Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said many of the ...

In all, around 1,270 probationary workers were slated to be let go from the agency out of 2,800 recent hires and promotions. The cuts amount to around 1 in 10 of the CDC's staff, though it is ...

Probationary workers across multiple federal health agencies ... Also not on the final list of cuts ordered by the Trump administration was the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, the agency's ...

representing about 45% of all probationary workers at the CDC. The CDC employs 12,000 individuals, with thousands of probationary workers, most of whom work a year or less for the center.