Two months after he sent the list, two of the officials on it were reassigned to less visible jobs within the Labor Department.

But in April, because of financial pressures, the hospital reassigned its two full-time interpreters to clerical jobs.

An additional 52 employees will be reassigned to lower-paying jobs.

Wang was reassigned to several insignificant ceremonial jobs.

Many workers who remain will be reassigned to new jobs, officials said.

Mr. Polishook said yesterday that about 200 professors were being laid off or reassigned to lesser jobs.

Task force members, who have been reassigned to other jobs by the Board of Education, have refused to comment when asked.

In past drug cases, the school district has pulled teachers from classes and reassigned them to administrative jobs until the cases were resolved, he said.

Initially 500,000 workers were due to be laid off or reassigned to more productive jobs before congress, followed by another million later on.

Some of King-Harbor's 1 600 employees would likely be reassigned to jobs at other county facilities.