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2026年5月15日 美国东部时间晚上8:34 更新于55分钟前
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华盛顿，5月15日（路透社）——据路透社审阅的一封邮件显示，特朗普政府于周五提议取消数百名美国卫生与公众服务部高级雇员的公务员工作保护。
多个机构的卫生与公众服务部雇员收到了这封邮件，邮件称其所在团队的部分成员将被重新归类工作岗位。这一变更意味着他们可被随意解雇。此前，他们仅能因正当理由被解雇，且拥有申诉权利。
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这一举措与政府今年2月宣布的公务员体系改革一脉相承。
此次改革赋予总统更多雇佣和解雇权，涉及最多5万名联邦职业雇员，这些雇员将从F类岗位重新归类为政策/职业类岗位。
一名卫生与公众服务部官员证实了该邮件的真实性，但未回应有关受影响员工数量、所属机构及职位的问题。涉及的GS-15级别雇员通常包括高级技术专家、管理人员、高层政策人员和主管。
邮件称，最初“数量相对较少……约为数百人而非数千人”的该级别卫生与公众服务部人员将受到岗位重新归类的影响。
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邮件称后续还会有“更多批次”的岗位转换。该官员表示，除此前已宣布的裁员外，该部门不会进行大规模裁员。
特朗普在竞选期间承诺，取消被其团队认定为“干预”政府政策的联邦雇员的工作保护。治理专家表示，这一变更将使开展更大规模裁员变得更加容易。
代表联邦雇员的工会已在联邦法院对这一举措提出质疑。
特朗普政府一直致力于缩减联邦 workforce，让公务员以及历来独立的董事会和委员会更向白宫负责。
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US moves to end job protections for hundreds of health department workers
2026-05-15 20:34:37 UTC / Reuters
By Ahmed Aboulenein
May 15, 2026 8:34 PM UTC Updated 55 mins ago
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WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – The Trump administration moved on Friday to strip hundreds of senior U.S. Department of Health and Human Services employees of civil service job protections, according to an email reviewed by Reuters.
HHS employees at several agencies received the email, which said members of their teams would have their jobs reclassified. The change means they can be fired at will. Previously, they could only be fired for cause and had appeal rights.
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The move is in line with an overhaul announced by the administration in February of the government’s civil service system.
The overhaul gives the president more power to hire and fire up to 50,000 career federal employees who are being reclassified from Schedule F to Schedule Policy/Career.
An HHS official confirmed the email’s authenticity but did not respond to questions about how many staff would be affected and their agencies and positions. The category of employees involved, GS-15, usually consists of senior technical experts, managers, high-level policy staff and supervisors.
The email said that initially “a relatively modest number…on the order of hundreds not thousands” of HHS personnel in that category would be affected by the reclassification.
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The email said “additional tranches” of conversions would follow. The official said there would be no mass layoffs at the department beyond those previously announced.
Trump pledged in his campaign to strip job protections from federal workers deemed by his team to be “influencing” government policy. Governance experts say the change will make it easier to carry out more mass layoffs.
Unions representing federal workers have challenged the move in federal court.
The Trump administration has sought to shrink the federal workforce and make civil servants and historically independent boards and commissions more accountable to the White House.
Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by David Gregorio and Cynthia Osterman
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