{"id":6790,"date":"2011-10-05T09:37:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:37:59","slug":"hiring_freeze_inches_ever_closer_to_absolute_zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/10\/hiring_freeze_inches_ever_closer_to_absolute_zero.html","title":{"rendered":"Hiring Freeze Inches Ever Closer To Absolute Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/bloomberg_to_impose_hiring_freeze_XbYLOcYeZp0xizGrv1HWzO\">&#8220;hiring freeze&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg imposed a hiring freeze today.<\/p>\n<p>With the stock market tanking and the city grappling with a $4.6 billion project deficit next year, city Budget Director Mark Page fired off a memo to agency heads limiting hiring to positions needed to protect public health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mayor has directed that all hiring be frozen for the foreseeable future,&#8221; the memo stated. &#8220;Only hiring for positions immediately impacting public health and safety positions which help maintain budget balance through this period may be exempted by the mayor on a case-by-case basis.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear how this hiring freeze is different from the one in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/10\/29\/nyregion\/city-announces-hiring-freeze-and-imposes-more-cutbacks.html\">2002<\/a>. Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/hizzoner_the_be.html\">2007<\/a>. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=avlhdgyIfGgc\">2009<\/a>. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/article\/20100921\/FREE\/100929960\">2010<\/a>. Brrr!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another &#8220;hiring freeze&#8221;: Mayor Bloomberg imposed a hiring freeze today. With the stock market tanking and the city grappling with a $4.6 billion project deficit next year, city Budget Director Mark Page fired off a memo to agency heads limiting hiring to positions needed to protect public health and safety. &#8220;The mayor has directed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_call_bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}