US Edition100+ Morgantown NIOSH employees being permanently restored, Sen. Capito says
- Senator Shelley Moore Capito announced that more than 100 workers at the Morgantown facility of the agency focused on occupational safety and health will be permanently rehired following recent job cuts.
- The rehiring comes after approximately 200 NIOSH employees were laid off in April as part of wider staffing cuts within the federal agency overseeing health and human services.
- Capito engaged with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., writing a letter urging reinstatement while coal miner Harry Wiley filed a lawsuit opposing abrupt employee terminations affecting miner safety programs.
- Capito emphasized her commitment to protecting the well-being of West Virginia employees, particularly miners, while United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts described the layoffs as severely harmful to both coal miners and their families.
- The reinstatement suggests partial restoration of NIOSH workforce essential for protecting miners’ health, although some research teams still face planned cuts, raising concerns about ongoing program impacts.
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100+ Morgantown NIOSH employees being permanently restored, Sen. Capito says
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — More than 100 of the employees who were laid off from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) facility in Morgantown are expected to have their jobs restored, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said in a statement Tuesday. Capito, who has been in communication with U.S. Department of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since the initial layoffs in April, said that "over 100 Morgantown employe…
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