After receiving pushback from staff represented by the Association of Legislative Employees, City Council leadership informed employees on Thursday that they were scrapping a plan that would have …

Police union leaders and others have pilloried the plan to redeploy officers in and around subway stations to combat rising crime underground as unworkable and politically motivated.  The plan, …

A judge has found that the city unlawfully terminated 16 Department of Sanitation employees for their refusals to get the Covid vaccine. “The vaccination mandate for City employees was not …

Every day, more fires in the South Bronx. And every day, when Jill Freedman drove up to the firehouse, two cameras strapped to the short blonde curls falling on her neck, she got the same answer: …

Since starting his term, Mayor Eric Adams has insisted that city workers come into the office every day even as city employees have repeatedly asked for a work-from-home option and vacancies in the …

The New York State Nurses Association is ramping up its efforts to campaign for fair contracts for about 30,000 nurses across the state. The union held a rally outside of New York-Presbyterian …

On a recent Friday afternoon, the employees of Astor Wines & Spirits were working at full speed. Among the dizzying number of bottles piled up under the high red-brick ceiling of the historic De …

“Everything we’ve done, especially over the last three years, we’ve earned our raise. We kept the school system afloat while so many people were at home,” said Michael Mulgrew, president of …

In a nearly unanimous vote, the New York City Council Oct. 12 passed a series of bills aimed at helping working parents by making child care more affordable and accessible. The average cost of child …

Home health care aides, who have been pushing for years to end 24-hour shifts, are now appealing to the federal government for help. This week, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice filed …

William Klobus, a FDNY fire protection inspector, passed away on the afternoon of Oct. 3 while inspecting a building at 90-01 Queens Boulevard. Klobus, who was 81, was possibly the oldest member of …

In January, the New York City Employees’ Retirement System added a pension option to its application for retirement and disability benefits.  The new option, now the first of four listed on …

While killings and shootings citywide dipped through the end of summer compared to last year, in some neighborhoods significantly, overall crime remains well above what it was before the pandemic …

When she enrolled at the University of Michigan, Shalca Nelson, like tens of millions of other Americans, took out thousands of dollars in student loans to help pay her way through. Nelson’s …

“It seems every time there’s a group of folks that are primarily black and brown, especially if they are women, they have to fight for fair wages. That ain’t right,” Public Advocate Jumaane …

Despite an intense lobbying effort by farm owners and their advocates, State Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon last week signed off on provisions that will incrementally lower overtime thresholds …

Struggling taxi drivers have gotten $225 million in debt relief over the last two weeks, but thousands more loans have yet to be refinanced after a cabbie debt crisis, officials and advocates said …

If a federal appeals court overturns New York City’s just-cause protections for fast-food workers, it would “undermine future efforts to protect workers,” a coalition of 15 attorneys general …

After a September City Council hearing revealed that a staggering 8 percent of city agencies’ positions were vacant, city officials have been looking for ways to help the city's workforce rebound …

(Corrections appended) An on-duty FDNY Emergency Medical Service lieutenant was stabbed to death this afternoon about a block and half from her Astoria station house in a vicious, unprovoked attack, …

Members of the City Council have again spoken out against the Adams administration’s mandate that city employees must work in-person, citing concerns that the policy is harmful to workers with …

Five years and half years after the incident that killed Emergency Medical Technician Yadira Arroyo, the man held responsible has been declared fit to stand trial and will face murder and other …

(Updated Sept. 27 to include new developments) A judge last week ordered the reinstatement of members of the Police Benevolent Association who were fired or put on leave for not complying with the city’s Covid vaccine mandates. While …

By last July, firefighter Anita Daniel had filed so many unsuccessful claims with the FDNY’s Equal Employment Opportunity Office for mistreatment that when a captain...

Although the salaries of 95 percent of New York City’s municipal workers are collectively-bargained, there are still glaring inequities within some civil-service titles, according to a recent City …