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mowotlarx OP t1_iz4yin5 wrote

Reply to comment by bsanchey in NYC comptroller says Adams has ‘exacerbated’ widespread city worker vacancies by mowotlarx

Comptrollers can only do the research, get the data and make report. We don't really have a mechanism for them to step in and take over when our Mayoral administration and City Council refuse to, unfortunately.

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bsanchey t1_iz507gu wrote

I get that but I think his research is just surface level stuff focusing on hybrid work. That might help but it’s not the main thing. Public employees are paid lower then private sector and wages have fallen. They were behind the cost of living before COVID and the inflation crisis now they are just not worth it

He doesn’t address the crappy tier 6 pension formula which falls most under his control or prose ways to improve future retirement for new employees

He doesn’t address the lack of promotions or the out of date and inadequate civil service test process.

Doesn’t address health benefits and is just rolling with Adams on cutting them for retirees and current employees.

There’s no bright side to these jobs anymore. No one wants a job that doesn’t benefit in anyway.

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mowotlarx OP t1_iz510k5 wrote

Did you read the report? He mentions hybrid as one of the options at the end but the entire report is just showing the statistics of people who left and what departments and for what apparent reasons.

This is actually very little about hybrid on its own and more about the city having difficulty recruiting (bad pay, no flex) and the mayor's office single-handedly deciding to eliminate positions and not make it easier to recruit. Even if we didn't reinstate the cut positions, the Mayor could single handedly fix the recruiting issue. He refuses to.

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cC2Panda t1_iz66k1m wrote

I straight up don't trust government pensions moving forward. My mother was a severely underpaid paraprofessional for more than 20 years, then she took a different job that paid far better but wasn't government, but in the last few years she took another government job that pays much more than she did as a paraprofessional. She had to fight with a bunch of admin fucks because they were basically saying that because she went to a private job(for a public institution)for a few years that she would effectively be treated as a new employee and her time building her pension as a para wouldn't count.

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bsanchey t1_iz6b6e4 wrote

That’s really unfortunate. I’m sorry that happened to your mother. Your mom should consult with a lawyer who handles these things. She paid into that pensions as a paraprofessional they can’t just take the money from her like that.

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cC2Panda t1_iz6gtjf wrote

She got it corrected she just had to advocate for herself in a way that I think a lot of people wouldn't. Basically the actual way they do the math to find our final pension changed at some point, so if you were hired before a certain date you kept the old pension calculation but if you were hired after they used a different calculation the made your pension less.

They claimed that because she had a gap in employment that her pension would be calculated with the new lesser calculation, rather than the better calculations from her first job in the early 90's.

So it wasn't that they were negating her time as a para, they were making a claim that because she was re-hired that she was only able to claim benefits with a newer crappier calculation.

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