Dive Brief:

Fired HHS employees are suing the Trump administration for illegally terminating thousands of employees in the federal health department’s spring restructuring based on incorrect records.

Seven affected staffers filed the lawsuit , which seeks class-action status, Tuesday in a D.C. district court against the HHS, the Department of Government Efficiency and other agencies and top leaders in the Trump administration.

The lawsuit seeks monetary damages for HHS employees who were let go with termination notices that contained errors. Lawyers estimate that most of the roughly 10,000 employees who were fired during the April reduction-in-force, or RIF, would be members of the class.

Dive Insight:

The HHS began notifying employees that they would be laid off on April 1 as part o

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