Trump Admin Cancels Fired Workers’ Insurance Early

The Hill reports:

Probationary workers who were re-fired this month from the Commerce Department say their health insurance is being terminated earlier than they expected. The workers had expected their health insurance to run into May. Instead, they received notices this week that the department is backdating their termination to an earlier date, meaning the health insurance ran out last week.

Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said he heard from “dozens” of NOAA staffers who received such notices. “At a time when the President is publicly touting how investors have recently made millions, even billions, off recent swings in the stock market, it is cruel and inhumane to short-change fired NOAA employees,” Whitehouse said in an email.

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Some workers at NOAA who were fired in February, rehired in March and then fired for a second time in April, say the agency has missed salary payments during that period, and failed to have their health insurance plans restored or provide basic paperwork. https://t.co/1X5y1M4aVv

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