‘Abolished’: US State Department lays off 1,353 staff in reorganisation
A senior department official said 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers based in the United States received layoff notices, with affected employees losing access to their email, headquarters, and internal systems by 5 p.m. “Headcount reductions have been carefully tailored to affect non-core functions, duplicative or redundant offices,” read a departmental notice obtained…
