Advocates praised defense leaders for excluding shipyard workers and other key readiness jobs from a department-wide hiring freeze.
About two-thirds of Veterans Affairs jobs will be excluded from a White House order blocking new hiring.
VA hires about 40,000 new workers every year to maintain operations at VA medical sites. It's unclear if that can continue under Trump's hiring halt.
Departments and agencies vary in the latitude they give their supervisors and managers to vary the step they offer to a prospective employee.
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