Over the past three weeks, as the Trump administration swiftly dismantled the United States Agency for International Development, some workers experienced particularly unceremonious dismissals.
This includes those working for the Global Health Training, Advisory, and Support Contract, or GHTASC, project, which employed the majority of the institutional support contractors in the agency’s Bureau for Global Health. While several employers were involved in this project, Credence Management Solutions, LLC, a private technology and services company, was the prime recipient of the contract.
Amid the flurry of USAID workers losing their work, GHTASC workers had an even more abrupt experience than the rest — many of those employed directly by USAID were put on paid administrative leave or unpaid furlough, which allowed them to maintain benefits. But GHTASC employees received an immediate termination letter with no severance and their health insurance was cut four days later.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
