Norman Seabrook, the former head of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association who began a nearly five-year prison term in May 2021 following his conviction on a federal wire fraud charge and a …

While unions representing municipal workers applauded the tentative contract agreement reached between the city and District Council 37, the state comptroller’s office projected that the city’s …

Workers engaged in 417 strikes in 2022, a year-over-year increase of more than 50 percent, with the number of workers participating in work stoppages rising 60 percent compared with 2021, researchers …

To address the high rate of unemployment among 16-to-24 year-olds in New York City, the City Council has proposed legislation that would require the city to create a yearlong mentorship initiative …

Nearly 380 employees at the city Human Resources Administration filed a lawsuit earlier this month over unpaid overtime and are seeking back pay. The eligibility specialists, who verify whether …

Book editors, sales associates, designers, marketers and other workers at the publishing giant HarperCollins were to return to their office in lower Manhattan Tuesday with a new contract that …

The city and District Council 37 have reached a tentative contract agreement that includes 16.21 percent raises over the span of a 65-month period and establishes a committee set to explore telework …

FDNY EMTs and paramedics took 35 more seconds to travel to the scene of medical emergencies during the four-month period ending in October than they did a year earlier, according to the recently …

One billion dollars.  That’s how much unscrupulous New York State employers are stealing from workers each year, according to Cornell University’s Worker Institute. It happens in every …

A teleworking policy developed by lawyers in the city’s Law Department during the final year of the de Blasio administration was scrapped by Eric Adams days after he became mayor, contributing to a …

They’re doing time. But inmates in New York State correctional facilities also work, producing items as diverse as office furniture, textile and apparel goods, uniforms, signs, even eyeglasses and, …

Staffing shortages in the city workforce have slowed down key services, including the processing of food stamps applications, the administration of civil-service exams and sidewalk inspections, a …

The city will lift its Covid vaccine mandate for municipal employees, but workers who lost their jobs for refusing to get the shot will not be reinstated, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. City …

The city comptroller is urging the state Department of Financial Services to launch a review of the Board of Education Retirement System, citing a “severe lack of board oversight” of the pension …

The City University of New York has announced a hiring freeze and has ordered budget cuts across its 25 campuses, a development slammed by CUNY’s largest union. Each college must find 5-to-6 …

Early last week, only days after agreeing to meet with striking employees for the first time since they walked out in November, HarperCollins’ CEO Brian Murray announced that the downtown-based …

The FDNY’s two top uniformed officials, Chief of Department John Hodgens and Chief of Fire Operations Joseph Esposito, have resigned their positions following the demotions late last week of three …

The City Council has passed a series of bills designed to close racial and gender wage gaps within the municipal workforce.The bills expand upon a 2018 law that mandates the city to publish municipal …

In an effort to rebuild a state public workforce significantly diminished by the pandemic, Governor Kathy Hochul last week unveiled an executive budget that dedicates nearly $19 million to …

After adamantly refusing to allow a telework policy for the city’s municipal workers, the Adams administration is now considering the option for District Council 37 members, according to a memo …

Mayor Eric Adams is moving forward with a contentious proposal to shift responsibility for some fire inspections from the FDNY to the Department of Buildings despite protestations from union …

The city’s oft-stalled intention to switch roughly 250,000 retired municipal workers to a private Medicare provider from their traditional Medicare plan will go ahead without affording the retirees …

Jennyfer Almanzar, a 26-year-old bartender, makes about $45 a shift tending bar part-time in Harlem. Like most food and drink service workers, she relies on tips to make ends meet. Tips, though, have …

Some of the most exploited and abused members of the country’s workforce have long been forced into silence by immigration threats. A new initiative could encourage them to speak up.On Jan. 13, the …

Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have accused management of violating contract terms just weeks after the two sides reached the agreement by nearly doubling agreed-upon health care premiums …