The Ministry of Health and Social Services dismissal According to the Republican Senato, Shelley Moorery Moorey Shelley Capito.
About 200 employees of the Niosh office in Morgantown, Virginia-Western, were put on administrative leave in April and informed that they would be officially dismissed in June. Some were temporarily brought back about two weeks ago, but until Tuesday, they were told that they would still be dismissed next month.
In a letter sent on Tuesday, a copy of which was obtained by ABC News, HHS said: “You previously received an opinion on the future reduction from the Ministry of Health and Social Services (HHS).
This decision comes after pressure from Capito and follows a series of ABC News Reports Detailing the impact that layoffs would have on black pulmonary health care programs for coal minors.
Capito, announcing the inversions of X, said: “The moor and the safety of our VD workers, including our minors, is the largest and I will always plead for their well-being.”
The criticisms said that initial layoffs, which were part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal government, denied his wish as invigorate The American coal industry.
Niosh has offices in several other states covering a range of vehicle safety problems for firefighters health care. It is not known if employees of these offices have also rehired.
In this July 21, 2007, photo file, the building of the Department of American Health and Social Services is presented in Washington, DC
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ABC News contacted HHS to comment.
The announcement occurred a few hours before a federal judge condemned the secretary of the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“The loss of the services of these experienced and dedicated employees is an aspect of irreparable damage to minors and the public who cannot and should not be ignored,” the judge of the American district Irene Berger on Tuesday wrote in his order.
It was not immediately clear if the decision had something to do with the Trump administration to restore workers on Tuesday earlier.
The decision of the Berger Judge intervened after a veteran coal minor appointed Henry Wiley, in April, challenged the return by the Trump administration of Niosh employees, arguing that the layoffs have put it in danger as well as other minors.
The judge wrote Tuesday that Wiley and a handful of Niosh officials who testified during an audience last week persuaded him of the importance of the Niosh health screening program and a derogation called part 90, which allows minors with black pulmonary disease to an early stage to transfer to the roles of mines.
If Niosh’s layoffs were authorized to move forward, Berger wrote: “Thousands of minors will go without Black Lung screening, and those who have a black lung will be deprived of access to the transfer option of part 90.”
Berger directly referenced Kennedy, writing: “Does the secretary of the Ministry of Health and Social Services really believe that a minor diagnosed with a black lung is not injured when the program designed to confirm his state and provide him with workplace protections to prevent his progression is made inaccessible? This court does not share such a belief.”
Berger has ordered the Trump administration to grant “a complete restoration of the Niosh respiratory health division, the cancellation of (reduction in force letters) and continuous health surveillance” through the health monitoring program and part 90.
She gave Kennedy three weeks to report in writing when the orders of the court were satisfied.
In a statement to ABC News, the lawyer for the complainants, Sam Petsonk, said: “This opinion gives life to our fundamental principles of a judicial journal, which allows ordinary citizens like these coal miners to defend their rights.”
“We are happy to see that the administration already take some initial measures in the sense of complying with the order. American coal miners deserve nothing less, and in fact they deserve much more,” said Petsonk.
An HHS spokesman told ABC News that Kennedy had worked hard to maintain the critical functions of Niosh while HHS rationalizes his operations and the Trump administration undertakes to support coal and firefighters.