New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams.
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Since day one, this administration has had a transparent mission: defend public security, rebuild our economic system, and make our metropolis extra livable for on a regular basis New Yorkers. Daily, we’re delivering on that imaginative and prescient. We’ve got recovered the entire private-sector jobs misplaced throughout the pandemic, one yr forward of schedule; general crime is down throughout the town this yr, because it was final yr; and we’re enhancing the standard of life for the 8.3 million New Yorkers who name this metropolis residence.
However whereas our metropolis has recovered from the pandemic, our restoration has not benefitted each New Yorker equitably. Black unemployment nonetheless stays far too excessive in our metropolis and we can not enable this development to proceed — that’s the reason we’re doing all the pieces we are able to to verify New York Metropolis stays a metropolis for working-class individuals. Final week, we took a giant step ahead with the launch of Jobs NYC, a whole-of-government method to bringing job and profession coaching alternatives to communities which were ignored for too lengthy.
As a part of Jobs NYC, we’re kicking off a sequence of hiring halls in neighborhoods dealing with employment disparities. These occasions meet New Yorkers the place they’re, bringing well-paying public- and private-sector job alternatives to New Yorkers throughout the 5 boroughs. We additionally launched an all-new jobs portal, jobs.nyc.gov. Job seekers can now decide up their telephones to go to this brand-new web site or go in-person to a hiring corridor to seek out new job alternatives. That is all-hands-on-deck effort to make it simpler and extra accessible than ever for all New Yorkers to take part in our thriving economic system.
Additional, Jobs NYC builds on motion we took final yr to reform our minimal qualification necessities for sure entry stage metropolis jobs, together with eradicating school diploma necessities for quite a few positions. We’ve got hundreds of open jobs in metropolis authorities, from faculty security brokers to tech roles. Prior to now, there have been too many historic obstacles stopping New Yorkers from changing into employed.
These commonsense reforms are making good-paying jobs extra accessible than ever as a result of we would like extra New Yorkers to affix Workforce New York. We additionally need individuals to who work for metropolis authorities to have entry to the numerous advantages that meet the wants of working-class households.
Final month, we made metropolis authorities extra family-friendly for hundreds of staff by increasing each paid parental and household go away for non-union metropolis staff. Impacting over 10,000 municipal staff and making the town extra aggressive with municipalities and personal employers throughout the nation, we doubled paid parental go away for non-union staff, from six to 12 weeks, and started offering as much as 12 weeks of paid household go away for these caring for a significantly sick member of the family. I’m proud to be a blue-collar mayor who was previously in a union. That can also be why now we have labored tirelessly to make sure that the Metropolis of New York’s labor sector have up to date and improved contracts.
Within the final 13 months, now we have negotiated contracts with unions representing 95 p.c of the town’s workforce and 100% of the town’s uniformed workforce, securing our hard-working public servants higher advantages and better pay. Our administration understands {that a} job is greater than what we do within the waking hours of our lives; a job is what permits us to realize the American Dream. That’s the reason now we have made historic investments to attach New Yorkers with the profession and coaching alternatives they should earn good-paying jobs. And we’re dedicated to creating positive that every one New Yorkers, notably these in Black and Brown communities, share within the prosperity of our metropolis.
Jobs NYC will assist us recruit the subsequent era of public servants and leaders who will assist us construct a extra equitable New York Metropolis, through which everybody has entry to a great job that may assist them assist a household and construct a way of mission and pleasure. Collectively, let’s maintain New York Metropolis one of the best metropolis on the earth to reside — and work — in.
