The Interior Department plans to lay off more than 2,000 employees, including hundreds of National Parks Service (NPS) workers, according to a Monday court filing.

The declaration, filed in the Northern District of California’s San Francisco Division, says the department intends to lay off 2,050 workers across 89 units.

Rachel Borra, the agency’s chief human capital officer as of Sept. 29, said the layoff plans “predated” the government shutdown and are not related to guidance on layoffs issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management prior to the shutdown starting on Oct. 1.

According to the court filing, Interior plans to lay off more than 470 employees from the Bureau of Labor Management and more than 140 from the Fish and Wildlife Service. It a

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