A week after widespread cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services, many workers are left wondering: Was that legal?

The federal health department sidestepped normal procedures as it laid off 10,000 employees, according to sources. One union ...

Job and program cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services have teed up court challenges and prompted bipartisan ...

As spring arrived in the mid-Atlantic region, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. followed through with ...

LEGAL QUESTIONS LINGER — President Donald Trump ... As the Trump administration tries to find a new home for IDEA at HHS, special education advocates insist the president can’t do it without ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb has become the latest drugmaker in the US to file a legal challenge to a block on a drug rebate model opposed by a Health and Human Services (HHS) department. Specifically ...

HHS has shared plans to revoke a policy March ... and impede the department’s flexibility to adapt quickly to legal and policy mandates,” Mr. Kennedy said. The policy statement is scheduled ...

Some agencies within HHS are believed to have lost nearly one-fifth of their workforce, which could impede their basic ...

Potential issues include the closure of entire offices, including some mandated by law; discrepancies in how the HHS determined which employees would be let go; incorrect information on ...

Lawyers and others who have watched the RIFs unfold say it’s not clear if government officials followed the specific rules and processes required by law. A few key issues raise their eyebrows ...