{"id":1216834,"date":"2025-02-18T19:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216834"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:52:45","slug":"in-a-last-minute-decision-white-house-decides-not-to-terminate-nasa-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216834","title":{"rendered":"In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlike workers at many other federal agencies this week, probationary employees at NASA were not terminated on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For much of the day employees at the space agency <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/02\/by-the-end-of-today-nasas-workforce-will-be-about-10-percent-smaller\/\">anticipated a directive<\/a> from the White House Office of Personnel Management to fire these employees, but it never came. &#8220;We were on pins and needles throughout the day,&#8221; said one senior official at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>However, by late in the afternoon, several field center directors received confirmation from the White House that their probationary employees\u2014of which there are more than 1,000 across the agency&#8217;s headquarters and 10 field centers\u2014would not be terminated. NASA had sought exemptions for all of these employees, who comprise about 6 percent of NASA&#8217;s workforce. Ars could not confirm whether the reprieve applied to some field centers or all 10 of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/02\/nasa-receives-11th-hour-reprieve-from-probationary-employee-cuts\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/02\/nasa-receives-11th-hour-reprieve-from-probationary-employee-cuts\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike workers at many other federal agencies this week, probationary employees at NASA were not terminated on Tuesday. For much of the day employees at the space agency anticipated a directive from the White House Office of Personnel Management to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}