Asks Unions to Okay Lower Pensions for New Staff, Gets Angry Response
More than 3,700 workers would be laid off, with another 9,700 positions reduced by attrition, under Mayor Bloomberg's final budget proposal for the fiscal year that starts July 1, with Tier 5 pension reform still being pursued, but a 10-percent employee contribution to health insurance coverage has been shelved.
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Rally Against Layoffs, Givebacks
By TOMMY HALLISSEY
Yvonne McNeil, a specialist with the Office of Children and Family Services, worries daily about the threat by Governor Paterson of 8,700 state layoffs. She worries about what would happen after six months when she estimates her savings would run out. More...
May Undercut MTA Poverty Plea
By ARI PAUL and RICHARD STEIER
The Metropolitan Transport Authority, with a growing budget deficit and help from Albany still stymied by legislative bickering, said recently that it could not afford any wage increases as part of a Transport Workers Union Local 100 contract now in arbitration. More...
Got Shorted on Pay, Promotions
By DAVID SIMS
African-American and Hispanic employees of the Parks Department will receive as much as $50,000 under a settlement from the long-brewing class action suit filed against former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern over his allegedly discriminatory pay and promotion practices. More...
By RICHARD STEIER
The New York City Employees' Retirement System trustees voted unanimously April 28 to suspend the use of placement agents and other middlemen on investments in the wake of alleged improprieties by two such agents with close ties to former City and State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi. More...
U.S. Attorney Accuses Correction of Violating Military Vet's Rights