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At least 600 CDC employees being terminated in US, union says

A sign stands at an entrance to the main campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States [File: Jeff Amy/AP Photo]

At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States are receiving permanent termination notices in the wake of a recent court decision that protected some CDC employees from layoffs but not others.

The notices went out this week, and many people have not yet received them, according to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents more than 2,000 dues-paying members at CDC.

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