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Mayor Gets Flak on Two-Month Gap Between City/State Office-Return Dates

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 4/8/21

Mayor de Blasio is  standing  by his decision to have 80,000 city employees who have been working remotely return to their offices starting May 3 even though their state counterparts won't be back in their offices until July 2, despite questions raised by municipal-union leaders and elected officials about the disparity.

When a city worker named Noah asked during the Mayor's weekly segment on WNYC April 1 about the two-month difference despite the possibility of another spike in coronavirus cases, he replied that decisions on reopening were "based on the data, based on the science with our health-care team," as well as by "what the city had learned in the schools."

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