The City Council has passed a series of bills designed to close racial and gender wage gaps within the municipal workforce.The bills expand upon a 2018 law that mandates the city to publish municipal …
In an effort to rebuild a state public workforce significantly diminished by the pandemic, Governor Kathy Hochul last week unveiled an executive budget that dedicates nearly $19 million to …
After adamantly refusing to allow a telework policy for the city’s municipal workers, the Adams administration is now considering the option for District Council 37 members, according to a memo …
Mayor Eric Adams is moving forward with a contentious proposal to shift responsibility for some fire inspections from the FDNY to the Department of Buildings despite protestations from union …
The city’s oft-stalled intention to switch roughly 250,000 retired municipal workers to a private Medicare provider from their traditional Medicare plan will go ahead without affording the retirees …
Jennyfer Almanzar, a 26-year-old bartender, makes about $45 a shift tending bar part-time in Harlem. Like most food and drink service workers, she relies on tips to make ends meet. Tips, though, have …
Some of the most exploited and abused members of the country’s workforce have long been forced into silence by immigration threats. A new initiative could encourage them to speak up.On Jan. 13, the …
Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have accused management of violating contract terms just weeks after the two sides reached the agreement by nearly doubling agreed-upon health care premiums …
Hundreds of union workers, organizers and activists from New York City converged on the state capitol Wednesday in support of legislation that would raise the minimum wage in New York City and its …
Nurses in the city’s public hospital system are ramping up their fight for a contract that improves staffing ratios and closes a wage gap between themselves and nurses working at private hospitals. …
When Tiffany Munroe started working in a New York City warehouse in late 2020, she thought she had finally found her first stable job since emigrating the year before from Guyana, where she had been …
First responders to the 9/11 attacks and survivors who have since developed uterine cancer are now eligible for free care under the World Trade Center Health Program. Eligible members of the program …
City employees who were terminated for refusing to get the Covid vaccine have filed a $250 million lawsuit seeking an end to the public-sector vaccine mandate as well as to be reinstated to their …
Ed Mullins, the firebrand former president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of wire fraud for fleecing more than a half-million dollars from the …
A kickback scheme orchestrated by a construction executive who manipulated bidding for jobs on upscale Manhattan projects netted more than $7 million for himself and others during an eight-year …
The city Department of Buildings is jeopardizing city residents' safety by condoning the installation of gas lines by unlicensed plumbers and other workers, a lawsuit by the plumbers union is …
Lucy Calderon was preparing for her family’s Christmas celebration Dec. 19 when she got notice that, effective immediately, she would no longer be employed at her $31-an-hour union job cleaning …
Mayor Eric Adams’ preliminary budget, released last week, reflects some tough choices. It includes funding cuts in early childhood education and for libraries, for CUNY and for city several …
Thirty city public school employees accused last spring of submitting fraudulent Covid vaccine cards received return-to-service letters Jan. 11 after a state Supreme Court judge ordered that they …
Killings and shootings dropped considerably citywide in 2022, even as overall major crime climbed 22 percent compared with a year earlier. The increases stemmed from spikes in grand larcenies and …
More than 7,000 nurses at two New York City hospitals were in the third day of a strike Wednesday with no breakthrough yet on the nurses’ demands for better pay and increased staffing.Although the …
Retired municipal workers will be deprived of choice if the City Council doesn’t sanction a change to the administrative code that allows the city to charge the retirees for a portion of their …
The City Council will weigh legislation that would require city agencies to conduct exit interviews with retiring and resigning municipal employees. As the city faces a vacancy rate that has …
Unions representing New York’s uniformed emergency medical technicians, paramedics and EMS officers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the city and the FDNY alleging “discriminatory …
Hennessy, pulse-pounding tunes and lap dances. All are prevalent in the city’s gentlemen’s clubs. Until a few weeks ago, they were also part of evenings and nights inside a UPS Customer …