Johnson administration has hired hundreds amid hiring freeze
Oct 29, 2024 · The city has hired or promoted 490 employees in the six weeks since Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a hiring freeze, with the Chicago Police Department seeing the most new hires.
Despite a hiring freeze, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s …
Oct 29, 2024 · The city hired or promoted 490 employees in the six weeks since Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a hiring freeze, with the Chicago Police Department seeing the most new hires.
Johnson freezes hiring in all departments, including police and …
Sep 9, 2024 · Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday froze hiring and travel in all city departments — including police and fire — and eliminated overtime “not directly required for public safety operations” to begin to confront Chicago’s burgeoning budget crisis. Johnson is not the first mayor to freeze hiring and restrict overtime to solve a budget crisis.
Editorial: A strict hiring freeze for police and fire would be folly
Sep 11, 2024 · With news Monday that his administration is responding with a hiring freeze, including what reportedly is a highly unusual pause on adding new hires to Chicago’s shorthanded Police and Fire...
Mayor Brandon Johnson exempts police, fire from citywide hiring freeze …
Sep 11, 2024 · Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration announced Wednesday that a recent hiring freeze across city government would not apply to police and fire employees, following backlash and confusion...
Mayor Johnson responds to city's financial shortfall days after ...
Sep 11, 2024 · Mayor Brandon Johnson has implemented a hiring freeze and other budgetary restrictions in response to Chicago’s $225 million deficit, which is expected to increase to $1 billion next year.
'Upon further review,' police and fire departments exempt from Brandon …
Sep 11, 2024 · Under fire from first responders and their City Council champions, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Wednesday his hiring freeze will not impact the city’s police and fire departments.
Mayor Brandon Johnson enacts citywide hiring freeze ahead of …
Sep 9, 2024 · Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday issued a hiring freeze on city government positions, including police, as his administration faces a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall next year.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson floats a hiring freeze ahead of …
Aug 29, 2024 · Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is floating a potential hiring freeze to end the year with a balanced budget ahead of an expected $982.4 million budget gap next year that will...
Mayor Johnson Enacting City Hiring Freeze, Limiting Overtime To …
Sep 9, 2024 · CITY HALL — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is enacting a hiring freeze for city departments and strictly limiting overtime and travel expenditures as Chicago faces a large budget deficit for the rest of 2024 — and a projected gap in 2025 of almost $1 billion.