It has become impossible to retain and recruit critically needed OCME staff as a result of low pay and the failure of the New York City Office of Labor Relations (OLR) to renew a 2018 memorandum of agreement (MOA) that expired over 3 years ago...We implore you to take immediate action to avoid losing your medical examiners (MEs), your borough offices, and your ME fellowship training program...
The MEs in NYC are some of the lowest-paid in the country...Since the MOA providing us with critical funding expired in 2021, OCME has lost 23 of its 32 full-time MEs - by far the highest rate of attrition this agency has ever seen. We anticipate losing six more in the immediate future.
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