Responding to a letter from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics official urging the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) not to suspend participation in the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), DIR Director Steve Smith said the department is reconsidering proposed personnel cuts.Under orders from the state Department of Finance to cut expenditures 15 percent in the face of a budget crisis, DIR has proposed eliminating three staff positions at the Division of Labor Statistics
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