Not a single friend and/or contributor to the Healy regime will be touched. I absolutely believe people with 30 years experience will go, because none of them were put in by Healy and his cronies. Where are the City Hall layoffs, you crook?

It appears no one from the Mayor's Office was laid off. Where's the shared sacrifice ?

I think they should fire John Jack Kelly.

Jersey City announces June 6 layoffs for 108 employees to save approximately $6 million annually

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
By TERRENCE T. McDONALD
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Jersey City plans to lay off 108 employees in June in an effort to downsize city government and save roughly $6 million annually, according to city officials.

Layoffs notices were sent this week to all of the city's roughly 1,300 civilian employees. There are 108 positions tentatively scheduled to be eliminated, said city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill.

Every department will be affected except for the Fire Department, according to Morrill. Even the Police Department is set to lose two civilian employees, she said.

The 108 scheduled layoffs will be "across the board," she said.

"There's management, union, upper management, people who worked for the city for 30 years," she said.

City officials believe the savings from 108 fewer positions will be about $6 million annually starting next year and about $3 million this year.

Chuck Carroll, president of the Jersey City Public Employee Inc. Local 246, said he understands the city is permitted to lay off employees, adding that his union's attorney will make sure "correct procedures are adhered to."

"I will be looking very closely at every jot and jiggle and every nebulous title and at anything that might smell of mean-spiritedness or political vendetta," Carroll said.

Carroll's union, which represents 525 white-collar city workers, has 43 members on the list of 108 positions set to be eliminated.

"Our members are the permanent government of this city," he said. "We watched mayors come, we watched councilmen come, we watch them go."

According to Morrill, now that employees have been given the 45-day notice, the state Civil Service Commission will lay out "bumping rights," which permits a senior worker to avoid being laid off by replacing a junior worker in the same department.

The layoffs are scheduled to take place on June 6.