The cuts will mean the city will not fill roughly 4,700 vacancies, according to City Hall estimates. It will not affect teachers nor uniformed vacancies in departments like police and fire.
, as well as a refusal by Mayor Eric Adams to consider a hybrid schedule for some municipal office employees.on the city’s troubling staffing crisis. As of August, the city’s workforce fell to below 282,000. DiNapoli said that the decline over the last two years measured over 6%, the largest decline in the city’s workforce since the Great Recession.
"Without the hardworking individuals who keep this city running, critical and essential services for our children and most vulnerable residents could be impacted,” DiNapoli warned. The city’s investigation, law, city planning, and social service agencies are among those that have seen double-digit percent declines in staffing over the last two years, according to the comptroller.
At the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development, a drop in affordable housing production was recentlyThere were roughly 12,000 vacant civilian jobs as of Oct. 31, according to an estimate from the Independent Budget Office Aside from teachers and uniformed officers, the city will also exclude from the cuts any grant-funded, legally mandated, revenue generating positions as well as those that “support mayoral priorities,” Jiha said in his letter.
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