Phila. Council hearing on employee residency law
Mayor Michael Nutter wants to relax the residency requirement for almost all city employees, and a bill to do just that will be tested today in a City Council hearing.
Mayor Michael Nutter wants to relax the residency requirement for almost all city employees, and a bill to do just that will be tested today in a City Council hearing.
Some unions are expected to oppose Councilman James Kenney's bill that would only require that new hires move into the city within six months of their appointment -- current rules require that candidates live in the city for a full year before being hired.
Nutter has already put this policy in place for the police department, but he wants it to apply to all employees, and supports Kenney's bill (Mayor John F. Street vetoed such a bill in 2001.)
Kenney's bill would exempt all but 766 of the city's 23,767 civil service workers. The hearing before the Committee on Labor and Civil Service begins at 11:30 a.m.
























