USDA to Seek Reduction in Force for 1,100 Employees

Government Executive: The Trump administration plans to eliminate jobs for nearly 1,100 Forest Service employees who manage the agency’s 24 Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers, which train young people for jobs in conservation and wildland firefighting. The centers will be transferred from the Forest Service to the Labor Department, which plans to close nine of them and turn 15 over to contractors or other non-federal entities.

Forest Service officials, in a conference call with employees Friday morning, said they were notified of the plan only days ago. “This was a high-level policy decision,” Forest Service Chief Victoria Christiansen told employees on the call.

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