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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said the agency is not carrying out large-scale layoffs, but may pursue "focused and limited" reductions in force.
The department will relocate about 2,600 employees to five other locations and shutter several key facilities in the capital region, including its historic main research center.
In a vote of confidence for Virginia’s growing life sciences sector, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced plans to ...
Leadership at the VA insists services won’t be affected by thousands of staff cuts. Area veterans will be watching closely to ...
Senator Mark Kelly criticizes impending VA workforce cuts, warning of longer wait times and reduced care for veterans.
The VA announced this month that by Oct. 1, its staff will have shrunk by about 30,000 employees this year. That’s roughly a 6 % reduction in force.
UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions, today announced that Bedford County, Virginia is transforming all aspects of workforce operations — from recruiting ...
Several Virginia leaders are speaking out after Virginia fell to fourth place in CNBC’s “Top States for Business” ranking for 2025.
That’s apparently good enough to reach VA’s workforce goals. The reductions come through normal attrition, early retirements, deferred resignations and the federal hiring freeze.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has cancelled plans to lay off tens of thousands of employees, as stated in a news release from the department. The VA is now expected to reduce its workforce by ...
VA Secretary Doug Collins said a few months back that the department would try to cut its workforce by 15% to reach pre-pandemic employment levels.
The number of job cuts projected for the agency has come in significantly lower than the original DOGE target of 80,000.