{"id":38079,"date":"2025-02-05T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38079"},"modified":"2025-02-05T03:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:33:03","slug":"usaid-announces-nearly-all-direct-hires-will-be-placed-on-administrative-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38079","title":{"rendered":"USAID announces nearly all direct hires will be placed on administrative leave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/elon-musk-says-trump-are-shutting-usaid-rcna190388\">U.S. Agency for International Development<\/a>&nbsp;announced Tuesday night that almost all direct hires around the world will be placed on administrative leave this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The move was announced&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/\">on the organization\u2019s website\u2002<\/a>after days of attacks by the Trump administration, including President Donald Trump himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The announcement says that beginning at 11:59 p.m. Friday, \u201call USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Those expected to keep working will be notified by 3 p.m. Thursday, the announcement said, adding that the government is working on a plan to return workers who are not in the country back to the United States if contracts are \u201cnot determined to be essential.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It ends with: \u201cThank you for your service.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/usaid-nearly-direct-hires-placed-administrative-leave-rcna190736\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;U.S. Agency for International Development&nbsp;announced Tuesday night that almost all direct hires around the world will be placed on administrative leave this week. The move was announced&nbsp;on the organization\u2019s website\u2002after days of attacks by the Trump administration, including President Donald Trump himself. The announcement says that beginning at 11:59 p.m. Friday, \u201call USAID direct hire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32264,2345,1546,32206],"class_list":["post-38079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-administrative-leave","tag-employees","tag-hiring","tag-usaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38081,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38079\/revisions\/38081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}