The ongoing debate about residency requirements for city workers
This week, Lisa Colangelo, writes about the ongoing controversy concerning residency requirements for city employees. Many city workers are no longer required to live within the five boroughs of New York City. All uniformed workers – police officers, firefighters, correction officers and sanitation officers – are allowed to live in the surrounding counties and north in New York State. The city’s largest union, District Council 37, recently won the right to live outside of city limits. Now several other unions, including Teamsters Local 237 and Communication Workers of America Local 1180, are pushing to get residency requirements lifted by ways of a bill, Intro. 992. Some individuals feel that residency requirements should be eliminated all together for the sake of fairness but this suggestion does not sit well with the city.
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