VA says it won’t need ‘large-scale’ reduction of staff – Daily Press
The Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday that it has eliminated the need for a large-scale reduction in staff after retirements, buyouts and hiring freezes that will amount to nearly 30,000 fewer employees.
The figure is far less than the 80,000 job cuts the sprawling agency that provides health care and other services to millions of veterans had planned this spring, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press in March.
That memo had instructed top-level staff to prepare for an agencywide reorganization and called for officials to work with the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The agency said in a news release Monday that it had considered a reduction of up to 15% — about 72,600 workers — of its 484,000 employees in January. But the agency said it will instead have 29,000 — or 6% — fewer staff members by this fiscal year’s end on Sept. 30.
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