A spokesperson said the union is still expecting a specific list of the department’s layoffs, which has given certain senior employees the opportunity to take other jobs and work junior workers.
The leaders of the Health Department have been faced with difficult decisions in response to the loss of funding, as many workers are only funded by wearing subsidies, which makes it difficult to decide that would lose their job.
Fess said that the cocovone subsidy that had paid part of its salary would end in just over a year.
“We had plans on how people would be off this source on another source of funding so that work can continue,” said Fess, whose work Includes monitoring and public education on the means of preventing flu, rage, measles, HIV and other infectious diseases.
Some workers who provide and promote vaccinations are not financed by these federal subsidies at all, but they still received layoff.
“These funds support whole workforce in the agency,” the ministry said in its press release. “Consequently, layoffs affect people who are directly and indirectly connected.”