WELLFLEET – The Trump Administration has backtracked on eliminating seasonal jobs at national parks.
It’s an exemption to the blanket federal hiring freeze instituted by President Donald Trump in his first days in office, affecting thousands of employees across the nation.
It had raised concern from the Cape Cod community worried about impacts on the Cape Cod National Seashore, which sees about 4 million visitors annually and hires lifeguards, maintenance crews and more to get it through the season.
The exception is only for seasonal jobs, and does not address the about 1,000 full-time, benefited workforce members of the National Park Service nationwide who were laid off February 14.
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