Citing the city's deteriorating finances, Mayor de Blasio Sept. 16 announced a one-week furlough for the close-to 500 employees who work directly for him. He will also lose a week of his $258,750 salary, a bit less than $5,000.
"This is a step you never want to see for good hard-working people," he told reporters. "The folks who work here throughout this crisis they have not been working 35 hours, 40-hour weeks. They have been working 80-hour weeks, 90-hour weeks, 100-hour weeks because they believe in the city and they have been fighting for all of you."
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