Judge adds one-week pause on Trump plan to put 2,100 USAID workers on leave
Two unions representing USAID employees sued the Trump administration, saying the funding halt not only upended overseas aid ...
USAID employees want a judge to keep blocking Trump’s effort to pull most of them off the job
Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development are asking a federal judge on Thursday to keep blocking an effort by President Donald Trump’s administration meant to pull all but a fraction ...
Skilled Legal Workers Find They, Too, Are Targets of Trump Citizenship Order
The executive order would ban citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign workers on visas that often lead ...
'We're pawns in a game': US aid workers left in limbo overseas as agency slashed
USAID foreign staff say in addition to feeling stranded, they also worry how their absences will harm the countries and ...
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Second judge blocks Trump's federal aid funding freeze
A federal judge on Friday sided with a coalition of 22 states and temporarily blocked a federal aid funding freeze directed by the Trump administration — the second such order this week.
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Clearwater non-profit workers at risk of furloughs, layoffs following president’s foreign aid executive order
putting dozens of workers at risk of furloughs or layoffs following the president’s executive order on foreign aid. Families being reunited at TPA. "We have individuals who are coming from refugee ...
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Israel bans main UN aid agency despite backlash
Palestinian staff, who make up the large majority at the headquarters, were encouraged to stay home for their safety, while UNRWA's international staff -- about 50 aid workers -- left for Jordan ...
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IBP offers free legal aid to tourism workers
The Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) teamed up to offer free legal assistance to accredited tourism stakeholders and frontline workers, particularly those ...
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Trump’s foreign aid freeze guts grassroots groups helping migrants in Latin America
The aid freeze dealt another blow, forcing the charitable organization that runs the facility to fire its only doctor as well as a social worker and child psychologist. In the days since Trump’s ...
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Aid Workers, Servants Receive New Humanitarian Medal
The first recipients of a new medal recognising humanitarian aid work on behalf of the United Kingdom are being recognised. The first recipients of a new medal recognising humanitarian aid work on ...
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DOLE: P2.9B financial aid helps over 58K workers in 2024
More than P2.9 billion in monetary benefits were provided to workers nationwide through the Single-Entry Approach (SEnA) program in 2024, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Friday, ...
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Exclusive: Up to 3,000 DC aid workers laid off by next week, CEO says
as the fallout from the U.S. foreign aid freeze continues. Speaking to Asia-Pacific staff on Friday, Torge Gerlach, CEO of DT Global, said: “Many of our competitors, most of our competitors ...