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August 17, 2007
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The Lieutenants' Benevolent Association Aug. 7 reached a tentative 26-month contract that will provide members with 8.16 percent in compounded raises and other benefits, including the restoration of two chart days and a $3,000-per-member payment to the union's retirement enhancement plan. More...
Want Fewer Provisionals

The city's testing agency has devised a five-year plan to drastically reduce provisional employees with permanent workers that includes administering more tests, merging titles, and creating promotion exams that could be used for several positions. More...

Union: Don't Prejudge

The union representing city Traffic Enforcement Agents defended its four members who were arrested and charged Aug. 7 with issuing false tickets to motorists in Manhattan. James Huntley, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1182, asserted that the charges were "based on a question... More...


An exhaustive 18-month probe by the Department of Investigation found "serious deficiencies" in how the Administration for Children's Services handled cases that led to 11 child fatalities and one near-fatality. DOI recommended that ACS hire 100 more investigative consultants to buttress the agen... More...


Program Sharpens Women's Skills

As with too many 8th-grade girls, it was the algebra that stumped her. "Back in the day, my passion was bookkeeping, but I had a problem with algebra," Noelia Garcia said. "I passed it by the skin of my teeth. This is my second chance at learning it. More...


The Administration for Children's Services has agreed to hire 153 current employees, most of whom had jobs slated to be phased out, to work in its revamped foster-care system. District Council 37 Local 371 officials also stated that the agency has agreed to increase from 90 to 207 the number of p... More...


It turns out that the failures of the Administration for Children's Services staffers who were involved in the Nixzmary Brown case - in which a 7-year-old girl was murdered last year, allegedly by her stepfather - were a microcosm of the agency's problems in handling abuse cases. More...
The cold war between the Bloomberg administration and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association has had one distinctly positive side-effect: it has made contract negotiations for other unions notably more timely than in the previous quarter-century. More...
To the Editor:
I read with interest your article (Aug. 3 issue) on Roger Toussaint's refusal to allow a democratic vote to fill the Transport Workers Union Local 100 vice presidential vacancy in Private Lines. At first, I was stunned at the seeming ambiguity in the posted bylaws that specifically mandate vacancy... More...
The long-anticipated 403(b) Final Regulations were issued by the Internal Revenue Service on July 23, 2007. More...
Starting Pay Is $42 an Hour; Need Experience; Filing to Close Aug. 21; Taking On-Line Applications
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services is accepting applications for an exam leading to Plumber jobs. Applications must be submitted by Aug. 1. The starting salary is $42.41 an hour. The multiple-choice test is scheduled for Nov. 10. There is a $60 filing fee. More...

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