By O Manuel
18:0 four on July 2, 2020 CDT
Hundreds of employees in the city of Dallas who have been fired since May will spend another two months without a paycheck.
Approximately 41 employees were informed this week that they may run out of paintings until September 30 due to the continued closures of libraries, recreation centers and other centers as the city grapples with the COVID-1 pandemic and its economic influence on the budget.
The Dallas Morning News received a letter from Dallas Public Library staff won Monday informing them of the extension.
“Due to the existing paint point and the uncertainty that follows the pandemic, the license may extend until September 30, 2020,” the letter reads.
The city’s spokes speaker, Catherine Cuellar, demonstrated that 41 employees in various departments, adding libraries, parks and recreation and the Office of Arts and Culture, are on extended leave.
The city administrator fired four72 employees in May, the maximum commonly of the same departments, as it faces the moderate deficit of $2 five million for the planned fiscal year. The city hoped to save around $4 million per vacation. About 13,000 paintings of other Americans for the city.
Cuellar said some of the staff returned to general work, while others were transferred to other departments in the city.
“It’s too dynamic a situation,” Cuéllar said. “We do our best to be agile and responsive. This will not disrupt the essential services.”
The oldest friend in the city planned for 100% of the staff to return to the paintings until July 20, either on-site or remotely, according to a June 18 briefing to the members of the City Council.
But in COVID-1, nine cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Dallas in June and early July slowed the city’s reopening, Cuéllar said.
Employees of the Dallas Public Library are some of the centers with the greatest influence for permission.
Jo Giudice, director of the Dallas Public Library, said that 146 of her staff had their furlough period extended. A handful, she said, have resigned or retired, and 35 returned to work as the library has reopened for curbside pickups of book and summer program materials. The library has about 400 employees.
Giudice said it’s “heartbreaking” to have to call or email the staff and shape them.
“What I can say is that my team is very friendly and we perceive that this is the moment when we are sure to be complete,” Giudice said. “It’s a strange scenario here. I’d rather everyone go back to the paintings and eventually get there.”
Cara Mendelsohn, a member of the City Council, which represents the far north of Dallas, said he supported the city administrator’s “difficult but necessary” decision decisively to increase the license.
With a drop in sales tax currencies and this year’s budget balance, Mendelsohn said, there were no other options. She added that she was happy to see that the city would be able to pay the employer’s share of the employees’ fitness insurance.
“I know we’ll all be thrilled when libraries and recreation centers reopen and staff return to work to serve Dallas residents,” Mendelsohn said.
The fired staff is also in danger of missing a $600 federal unemployment subsidy per week that is compatible with their license. This benefit support, instituted in the CARES Act, expires july 31, and Congress is still looking to make that benefit-compatibility bigger.
Cuéllar said losing profits can also put city staff in a more difficult situation.
“I have no idea of the times of those who suffer from this and else they will make a selective selection to paste with permission,” he said.
Obed Manuel, editor-in-chief. Obed has lived in Dallas, Oak Cliff’s most important friend, since 1996. Obed covers immigration, local news, politics, social justice, and disorders affecting second-generation Hispanic immigrants in North Texas. He graduated from the University of North Texas at Denton.
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