The city has reduced by more than half the number of provisional employees from the 37,797 it had on staff in 2008, according to testimony offered by the de Blasio administration at a Nov. 27 City Council hearing.
“I am pleased to report that, as of Nov. 22, our provisional count is 17,380, or 69 away” from the city’s goal, Dawn Pinnock, the Executive Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, told the Council’s Civil Service and Labor and Government Operations committees. “This represents the first time since the city’s provisional-reduction effort started that DCAS has come within striking distance of our goal and substantial compliance” with the civil-service law that restricts to five percent “our competitive workforce serving provisionally.”
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