The Department of Citywide Administrative Services has drafted a plan to dramatically reduce the number of provisional workers in response to a Court of Appeals decision last year that will involve consolidating and broadbanding titles as well as moving some Competitive jobs to the Non-Competitive Class.
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Cites Speedier Queens Responses
By ARI PAUL
The Fire Department expanded its pilot dispatch program to The Bronx May 1 and it will institute it citywide on June 1, although the fire unions still believe it is compromising firefighter and public safety. More...
Klein: Principals' Call
By MICHELLE FRIEDMAN
Union leaders and education advocates joined the Chairman of the City Council's Education Committee May 6 in urging Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein to consult with them about the spending of $360 million of the $622 million in recently approved state aid to the public schools. More...
By ARI PAUL
The Fire Department will now have a combined Medal Day for firefighters and Emergency Medical Service members on the first Wednesday in June, to the dismay of unions representing employees in both fields. Until this year, the EMS Medal Day was a separate event during National EMS Week at the end of May. EMS has been a division of the FDNY since 1996. More...
The Fire Department May 8 promoted 21 firefighters and Emergency Medical Service responders during a ceremony at the Fire Academy at Randall's Island, including the induction of a new EMS Division Chief and four new Battalion Chiefs. More...
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