Mayor Joe Hogsett’s office said the mayor would make a new appointment after City-County Council members decided Monday evening to table a confirmation vote for Lena Hill, his pick for deputy mayor of public health and safety.
Under Gov. Mike Braun’s new policy, all women employed by the state, including both full- and part-time workers, are eligible for up to six weeks of paid childbirth recovery leave.
There are an estimated 200,000 probationary workers across federal agencies. They include entry level employees but also workers who recently received a promotion.
The staff reductions announced Tuesday were the largest in department history and of a magnitude rarely contemplated before this administration took office.
Westfield plans to conduct a payroll audit going back 17 years after officials recently discovered a firefighter had experienced incorrect payroll deductions since 2009.
Pillar, which launched out of High Alpha in 2021, offers a platform employers can use to help evaluate job candidates during the interview process.
Rodney McMullen, 64, began his career with Kroger in 1978 as a part-time stock clerk and bagger. He was named Kroger’s CEO in 2014 and became the company’s chairman the following year.
The latest mass terminations follow the removal of thousands of probationary employees across the government as the new administration moves swiftly to shrink the federal workforce.
During the first meeting of his second-term Cabinet, President Trump suggested that the new revenue generated from the program could be used to help pay off the country’s debt.
Councilors authorized an external investigation in August after three women came forward with harassment allegations against the mayor’s former chief of staff.
The outcome of the case could remove an additional requirement that some courts apply when members of a majority group, including those who are white and heterosexual, sue for discrimination under federal law.
The move could have wider implications for the thousands of probationary employees fired in recent weeks as the Elon Musk-led U.S. DOGE Service sweeps through federal agencies.
On Monday afternoon, many federal agencies began issuing guidance that their employees did not need to reply to Elon Musk’s email—and asserting that no one would be considered as having resigned, despite what Musk said.
The administration on Thursday ordered agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection—potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers.
The ruling came hours before the midnight deadline for them to apply for the deferred resignation program.
More than 40,000 people had accepted the offer as of Wednesday evening, a person familiar with the matter said.
Multiple studies have extolled the benefits of napping, such as enhanced memory and focus.
Heads of federal agencies are under increasing pressure from the Trump administration to slash the size of their staff after early indications of the deferred resignation program show officials still short of realizing their goal of 2% to 5% reduction.
More companies are expected to join the movement this year as they raise performance expectations and mandate workers return to the office full time, work experts say.
The eight cabinet secretaries serving under Gov. Mike Braun will each take home $275,000 annually for their new positions.
