Facing mounting concerns of staffing shortages, Adams admin walks back city hiring freeze (with a catch)

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Facing mounting concerns of staffing shortages, Adams admin walks back city hiring freeze (with a catch)
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After ordering a hiring freeze on nearly all new municipal employees, the Adams administration now says New York City agencies can resume hiring — as long as they submit plans to slash their budgets.

– which call for a 3% reduction in the current fiscal year and a 4.75% cut in each of the following years – he said adding a hiring freeze would be a “real mistake.”

“We're already having a lot of problems hiring people for a whole range of essential city services and programs,” Lander told Gothamist in an interview on Monday.Late Monday, Jiha softened the administration’s approach, telling Lander that city agencies who share their budget cut proposals wouldn’t be subject to the hiring pauseInitially, Jiha stated in a letter to city agencies that they could not resume hiring until their fiscal plans and cuts were approved by the budget office.

Many city agencies are struggling with large staffing shortages, with some leading to slowdowns in key services that include

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