According to an attorney representing the Ohio city, there’s no going back for Cincinnati in its effort to lay off hundreds of firefighters and police officers.
City Solicitor John Curp said layoffs would be needed to temporarily balance the 2014 budget, according to a report from WCPO (http://bit.ly/16dZO5d). Once another budgetary dispute is finished, laid off municipal employees might be called back to work, but that could take months.
The layoffs would include 120 firefighters and 196 positions in the police department.
Layoff notices will be sent to employees on May 20 at the earliest and June 3 at the latest. Layoffs likely will happen on June 9.
Read more about the situation at http://bit.ly/16dZO5d.
For more on the Cincy situation, consider Cincinnati Firefighter Layoffs Would Have Big Impact and Cincinnati Budget Plan Would Close Around Half of Its Fire Stations.
For more on firefighter staffing issues and the nationwide budget crisis, consider FDIC 2013 Presentation Deals with Firefighting, Politics, and Budget Cuts, Inside a Budget Fight: It Never Ends, and Nobody Wins, and Are We Short -Staffed or Just Short -Sighted?
