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dalton99a

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Tue Apr 1, 2025, 02:47 PM Apr 1

Fired health workers were told to contact an employee. She's dead. [View all]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/01/health-workers-discrimination-complaints-employee-dead/

Fired health workers were told to contact an employee. She’s dead.
Some federal health employees who were laid off Tuesday were told to contact Anita Pinder, who died last year, with discrimination complaints.
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 p.m. EDT
By Lauren Weber

Some government health employees who were laid off Tuesday were told to contact Anita Pinder with discrimination complaints. But Pinder, who was the director at the Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, died last year.

The inclusion of Pinder’s name in reduction-in-force notices reflects the chaos of the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to shed federal workers and was a gut punch to employees who knew her, said Karen Shields, who worked with Pinder.

“They couldn’t have run it past the people at CMS that were at the funeral and knew she died,” Shields said. “This is a lack of communication. There is just a better way to do this.”

In one notice reviewed by The Washington Post, laid-off CMS employees were told: “If you believe this personnel action is based in whole or in part on discrimination based on your race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability, or in retaliation for prior protected activity you may file an EEO complaint with your designated HHS EEO representative.”

The notice then listed Pinder, her email and a phone number, and asked employees to contact her no later than 45 calendar days from the effective date of their separation from government service.

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So much efficiency from the Nazi parasite




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