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Hundreds fired at aviation safety agency, union says
The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, weeks after a fatal mid-air plane collision in Washington DC.
Several hundreds of the agency’s probationary workers – who have generally been in their positions for less than a year – received the news via email late on Friday night, a statement from PASS’s head, Alex Spero said.
It is a part of a cost-cutting drive, driven by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)., that aims to drastically cut the federal workforce.
Spero called the firings “shameful” and said they “will increase the workload and place new responsibilities on a workforce that is already stretched thin”.
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Cabinet approves debt restructuring between Hungarian Export Credit Insurance Private Limited and the Government of Sri Lanka
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal presented by the President in his capacity as Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic
Development, to enter into an agreement on debt restructuring with the Hungarian Export Credit Insurance Private Limited.
HThe Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal presented by the Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development to conduct the
national productivity award competition under the main sectors: school, public, production, and services from the year 2025/26 as a strategic methodology to achieve the objectives of the national project “Clean Sri Lanka” of the present government.
The Cabinet of Ministers granted approval to the resolution furnished by the Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation to submit the draft bill of the National Transport Commission Act No. 37 of 1991 to the Parliament after publishing it in the government gazette.
Cabinet approves debt restructuring between Hungarian Export Credit Insurance Private Limited and the Government of Sri Lanka
Cabinet approval to conduct the National Productivity Award Competition
Amendments to National Transport Commission Act No. 37 of 1991 to be gazetted
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