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In order to save some money, Mayor Daley announced today that City Hall would be closed on the Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and New Years Eve both this year and next. The six day shut-down will save the city approximately $19.8 million total. Sayeth the Sun-Times, "The only city employees scheduled to work those traditionally high-absenteeism days will be police officers, firefighters, 911 center employees and a skeletal crew in departments like Streets and Sanitation, Water, Aviation and Family Services." The stinker? The rest of the city workers will have to take the days off unpaid in order for the whole thing to work. We guess a few unpaid days beats getting laid off. In the event of a snowstorm, the city workers would be called back in.
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wow this is pretty shocking. i would be pissed off if i had to take the day off unpaid. why isn't chicagoist giving any commentary about this? you did not break the story anyway.
City workers actually have to take SIX unpaid days this year, as we already had three before they announced this today. It's nice to see my salary going down every year... Oh well, still have a job.
City workers actually have to take SIX unpaid days this year, as we already had three before they announced this today. It's nice to see my salary going down every year... Oh well, still have a job.
If I had a city job, I'd be glad to have those days off, paid or not.
to bad Chicago can't go bankrupt and get bailed out by the chinese or a middle east sovergn wealth fund maybe they could teach the mayor about managment.