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Posted: Oct 26, 2017 3:33 PMUpdated: Oct 26, 2017 3:33 PM

OSDH Plans To Lay Off Employees

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Ben Nicholas

The Oklahoma State Department of Health is planning to lay off about 250 employees, or 12 percent of its workforce, early next year amid a cash crunch at the agency.
 
Employees at the department were notified of the reduction-in-force plan via email on Wednesday.
 
Department spokesman Tony Sellars says it's not entirely clear how the funding shortfall occurred, but he says it's unrelated to budget cuts as a result of declining legislative appropriations.
 
He says the agency has asked the state auditor's office to conduct a special audit to examine its finances.
 
Sellars says it's likely most of the layoffs will happen at county health departments in communities across the state, although a final decision on which positions will be cut hasn't been made.
 


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