Certain FDA User Fee Jobs Appear To Be Exempt From Hiring Freeze

HHS personnel slots listed as exempt from President Donald Trump's federal hiring freeze appear to apply to some FDA drug center generic drug user fee hires, according to an internal HHS memo and an FDA drug center list of job opportunities. The drug center jobs opportunities list, posted at www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA/GenericDrugUserFeeHiring/, contains several GS Series numbers that correspond to positions that the internal HHS memo identifies as exempt from the hiring freeze, including chemists (GS Series 1320) and pharmacists (GS Series...