Five percent of Texas Children's Hospital staff are the latest casualties of Bidenomics. That amounts to roughly 1,000 jobs across Texas. Executive Vice President and Chief of Human Resources for the hospital system, Linda Aldred, told the Houston Chronicle, "This has been so challenging and so difficult for us to get here. We have been really thoughtful about it. We do not plan to have additional cuts or job eliminations."
The move has already sparked a $400,000 lawsuit after a would-be physician's assistant was told she was no longer going to be hired by TCH. According to our TV partner Channel 2, Mojgan Pedram was working as a physician's assistant in California but moved with her family to Texas after being offered a job by TCH. After the relocation, she was told that she was not being hired after all.
She said, “Everything was already set, and I already relocated. I moved here and I was planning to, like, financially start to be stable again, but all of it in a second was ruined.” She also said that TCH was aware that they would not be hiring her two months before they told her, resulting in thousands of dollars of avoidable moving expenses.
Pedram's attorney, Jacob Scholl, said, “The takeaway is that Texas Children’s Hospital, in all of their bureaucracy, leaves their employees by the wayside. They don’t seem to care about the decisions that they make and how they affect not just the individual employees, but the community and their family members as well.”