Despite a 15% staff reduction goal, VA Secretary Doug Collins says the VA is hiring about 1,000 employees on a biweekly basis ...

Nearly 10,000 human resources officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs received about a 15% pay raise from this ...

But the VA cuts are poised to grow much larger in the coming months. Last week, a leaked memo revealed that the department is planning on firing about 83,000 employees later this year. While ...

The agency dismissed 2,400 probationary employees in February. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the ranking member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, said he learned about the new contract ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has initiated a plan to lay off at least 76,000 employees to comply with President Donald Trump's order last week calling for broader cuts to the federal ...

The Veterans Affairs Department is planning to lay off tens of thousands of employees throughout its organization later this year, according to an internal memorandum distributed to top staff on ...

Last month, nearly 2,500 employees were removed from Veterans Affairs, representing roughly 0.5 percent of the department's nearly 480,000-person workforce. Senator Richard Blumenthal said in a ...

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has introduced legislation he said will protect veterans from past and future federal layoffs. The Putting Veterans First Act would reinstate — with full ...