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Health Partial Unannounced
Hundreds of CDC layoff notices rescinded a day after they were issued
~700 of ~1,300 RIF notices rescinded; ~600 remained out
Original action
More than 1,300 CDC employees received reduction-in-force notices during the October 2025 government shutdown.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / HHS
Reversal
About 700 of the RIF notices were rescinded the next day; HHS said the affected employees were never separated and attributed the notices to position-coding errors. A court then blocked further RIFs.
- Mechanism: administrative-action
Notes
Reversal framed administratively as a correction of 'coding errors' rather than a policy change; roughly 600 employees remained out of work.