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SF politics
fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago

Mayor Lurie Says He's Laying Off 500 SF City Hall Employees, Which Will Not Endear Him to the Labor Unions

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie must eliminate at least 500 City Hall jobs to address a nearly $1 billion budget deficit, marking actual layoffs rather than accounting adjustments used previously.
from48 hills
3 months ago

SF fires immigrant advocate-and activists are confused and angry - 48 hills

San Francisco has more than 34,000 employees, and sometimes some of them get fired. In most cases, the workers are under union contracts, and termination requires some sort of cause, some sort of a warning system, and some sort of due process: Your boss can't just call you into their office one day and say you're no longer needed. But a small percentage or those workers are called "exempt," which means they can be fired at will.
San Francisco
UK politics
fromBusiness Matters
5 months ago

Bloated public sector growth leaves tax rises all but inevitable

Public-sector employment has risen to almost 6.2 million, increasing fiscal pressure amid low productivity and likely substantial tax rises.
fromMission Local
9 months ago

Mayor Lurie says he's cutting 1,400 jobs. It's actually 1/3 of that.

A budget crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, said Lurie during his budget remarks.
NYC politics
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