Some US Food and Drug Administration employees who were laid off last week as part of the Trump Administration’s weekend purge of hundreds of probationary employees are being asked to come back to work, per multiple sources in contact with recalled employees. Calls and emails were being sent 22 February.
BREAKING: Some Laid Off CDRH Employees Called Back To Work
Some US FDA employees who were recently laid off by the Trump Administration, including in CDRH, are being called back to work, multiple sources confirmed to MTI's sister publication, the Pink Sheet.

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