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Sean Duffy: “We let our probationary employees go, except for the…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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And so probationary employees are employees for the most part, who have been employed for less than a year. And across the modes, which is all the different modes of transportation we have, We let our probationary employees go, except for the employees that work in our critical safety mission, like air traffic controllers. Right, right. They just lied about it. Or the inspectors at Boeing. No one was laid because 352 people were let go as probationary employees at the FAA, which by the way is 0.8% of their workforce. (10:05–10:16)

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