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Last week, we heard from a young public health worker in Iowa named Bri McNulty, who’d been terminated abruptly over email in February amid a slew of federal workforce dismissals. Well, yesterday, McNulty got an equally surprising email hiring her back. NPR’s Yuki Noguchi has this update on the bewildering situation facing some federal employees.
YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: A lot has happened since I last spoke to Bri McNulty about a week ago. In that time, an old boss at Penn State had already offered to hire the 23-year-old back. She’s made plans to move out of Iowa City, where she’d moved in late 2023 to take a prestigious fellowship with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She’s even found a new place to live near the new job…