VA Fires 1400 More, Including Crisis Hotline Staff

The Military Times reports:

Veterans Affairs leaders dismissed more than 1,400 additional probationary employees on Monday evening, the second round of mass layoffs at the department this month.

Monday’s dismissals included bargaining-unit employees who have served less than two years in their posts. Officials said the moves did not impact any mission critical jobs, but did not provide any specifics of the types of assignments that were eliminated.

Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the latest or past dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go.

Read the full article. Remember all those heartfelt GOP speeches about stemming the “suicide crisis” among veterans? Yeah.

VA fires 1,400 more staffers in second round of workforce reductions

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