CDC offers buyouts, retirement to 106 employees

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By ALISON YOUNG
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/23/08

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering buyouts and early retirement packages to 106 employees in the office of CDC Director Julie Gerberding, the Atlanta-based agency announced this week.

The move seeks to reshape the director's office to focus more on leadership and less on operations, CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said Wednesday.

The director's office staff grew by more than 40 percent during Gerberding's controversial agency-wide reorganization, begun in 2003, called the Futures Initiative. Before the reorganization, the office had about 1,200 employees. It now has about 1,700, Skinner said.

While the staff reduction incentives are being offered to positions that include certain administrators, accountants and lawyers, some medical officer and public health adviser positions also are eligible.

The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, warned in a report last month that the CDC will face challenges replacing retiring medical officers and other similar positions due to a national shortage of public health professionals. More than one-quarter of the CDC's workers are eligible to retire in the next five years, the GAO said.

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1. Finally we know Skinner's day job!

it was only a matter of time....


And I am so happy that the CDC is going to "focus more on leadership and less on operations", meaning of course that they are going to let BIGBIDNESS take care of all those messy operational issues. The timing couldn't be better, what with one of the fall out side effects from global warming and economic globalization being the increase in the number of new and improved diseases infecting the human population and a vastly improved infection rate for those diseases. Hey why not? As far as I can tell their plan for us involves a Massive Die Off anyway.