Andrea Hsu
Andrea Hsu is NPR's labor and workplace correspondent.
Hsu first joined NPR in 2002 and spent nearly two decades as a producer for All Things Considered. Through interviews and in-depth series, she's covered topics ranging from America's opioid epidemic to emerging research at the intersection of music and the brain. She led the award-winning NPR team that happened to be in Sichuan Province, China, when a massive earthquake struck in 2008. In the coronavirus pandemic, she reported a series of stories on the pandemic's uneven toll on women, capturing the angst that women and especially mothers were experiencing across the country, alone. Hsu came to NPR via National Geographic, the BBC, and the long-shuttered Jumping Cow Coffee House.
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President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions are vowing to sue. -
The appointment of Catherine Eschbach could raise conflict-of-interest concerns. She will also lead the downsizing of an agency that holds contractors accountable to federal civil rights laws. -
Home health care workers are in demand across the country, and in Nevada caregivers are heading to the state capital to demand a raise. One of them is someone who came to the profession through an unlikely path.
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Already, lower courts have found President Trump's removal of Democratic members of independent agencies to be unlawful. The Trump administration has appealed. -
Since President Trump took office, federal contractors have been scrambling to figure out how to continue complying with nondiscrimination laws without running afoul of his anti-DEI executive orders.
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President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to take steps to comply with nondiscrimination laws. Some fear women and people of color will lose opportunities.
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Mental health professionals with the Veterans Health Administration say the stress caused by Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" emails is hurting veterans' care. -
The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate nearly 6,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, according to a ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board. -
A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration's firings of thousands of probationary employees, calling the actions illegal. -
The Trump administration is facing legal challenges as it moves to shrink the federal workforce. A judge will hear arguments Thursday on whether dismissal of probationary employees should be halted.
