Employee Groups Applaud Mayor’s Plan to Cut Provisional Workforce

While expressing sympathy for managers who may not score high enough on civil-service tests to keep their jobs, leaders of public-employee labor groups last week praised Mayor de Blasio for moving to replace more provisional workers in competitive jobs with those who pass such tests.

“We’re glad the de Blasio administration is making civil service a priority and is going about diversity in the right way,” said Stu Eber, president of the New York City Managerial Employees Association, which advocates for managerial and confidential employees on matters from pay raises to promotion exams.