Nasa’s stars may fall: Trump may trigger mass exit of 2,000+ scientists and staffs; smallest workforce since 1960s

[ad_1] This is a representational image Nasa is set to lose more than 2,000 senior-level employees as part of a push to cut government staff. According to documents obtained by POLITICO, 2,145 employees in top roles are expected to leave the space agency in the coming months. Many of them have years of experience and […]

Win for Trump: US supreme court allows for downsizing federal workforce; Thousands already out of work

[ad_1] The US Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the green light to President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce the size of the federal workforce despite concerns that it could disrupt essential government services and potentially leave thousands of federal employees unemployed. The ruling overrides lower court orders that had temporarily blocked the cuts, which have […]

UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears | World News

[ad_1] UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears (Photo: AP) The UN agency that fights HIV plans to slash its workforce by more than half and move many posts to cheaper locations as a result of drastic funding cuts from longtime donors in the United […]

IRS to cut 20,000 jobs as Trump administration moves to shrink federal workforce

[ad_1] The US internal revenue service (IRS) has started laying off staff as part of sweeping job cuts that could see up to 20,000 employees, around a quarter of its entire workforce, lose their jobs, according to three people familiar with the matter.The layoffs began on Friday and will initially hit the IRS’s office of […]

ATF workforce faces major cut as FBI chief Kash Patel plans to move 1,000 agents

[ad_1] US FBI Director Kash Patel, who also serves as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI, reducing the ATF’s agent workforce by over one-third. This reduction will affect the ATF, an organisation that has faced opposition from gun […]