BALTIMORE (AP) — The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says that about 70 state dietary service workers who were scheduled to be fired will keep their jobs.

The Baltimore Sun (http://bsun.md/1UdcKyN ) reports that employees at the Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville and at the John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in Rockville will keep their jobs.

Under a budget submitted by Gob. Larry Hogan, the workers were scheduled to lose their jobs.

Department spokesman Christopher Garrett says the Hogan administration took another look at the situation and decided to go another direction after a lobbying effort by the state workers’ union.

The legislature’s budget committees fenced off $1.7 million that Hogan could use to keep workers employed.

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Information from: The Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com