The National Science Corporation launched approximately 170 workers in a Enlargement Call on Tuesday morning as part of the Trump administration agenda to reduce the federal workforce. Among those who were told that their employment will end at 5 pm today, those who are still under observation, as well as workers who have already completed the test period for one year to become permanent workers and workers in the will who have always been considered employees.
Earlier this month, NSF suddenly told these permanent workers that the test period for one year should have been for two years and was no longer safe from the end.
The Trump administration has ordered federal agencies About fire Researcher employees Those who have not yet acquired a permanent condition, thus receiving civil service protection. But NSF workers who thought they were safe and suddenly found themselves without jobs today.
The National Science Foundation is an independent agency within the federal government that provides scholarships for universities and other bodies to support scientific and engineering research. Granting the Foundation is about a quarter of federal support to academic institutions for research. NSF grants were stopped in late January due to the freezing of financing, but the agency Resuming the grant version After the court’s order early this month.
Many people ended on Tuesday as managers and experts for programs who make decisions on financing by harmonizing research proposals with the correct program and matching these proposals with the most qualified auditors to evaluate them and submit recommendations.
“It is difficult to imagine that it will be successfully accomplished through automatic algorithms,” said one of the director of the Fire Fred Wire program. “With a fewer program employees to supervise the evaluation process, the overwhelming concern is that it will be difficult to identify and support transformational projects, but unconventional that can be games changes in terms of scientific progress in the United States of America.”
All sources that spoke to WIRED requested not to reveal her identity for fear of revenge.
The sources say that 168 workers received an email at 9:02 am US ESTT this morning asking their presence at 10 am calling for a zoom to clarify a “meeting with the NSF test staff”. However, many workers did not receive the takbeer link, and they lost the beginning of the call. At the meeting, they were told that their arrival in the network will be closed at one o’clock in the evening and they had until 5 pm to wipe their offices, although the workers had been told that accommodations will be held to obtain things they could not clarify by 5 pm.
The completion procedures this morning also included all the permanent employees who were appointed as “at the will.” One of the ended workers tells that they were always federal employees working part -time, with an annual contract for renewal in September.
The NSF administration told workers during the meeting: The decision to end the wills employees came from NSF alone, and not from the administration. When asked if the employees of the will were finished from fairness to the test workers, the NSF administration replied that the decision “is partly due to fairness, but this is not all.”
