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Recruiting federal workers for city government positions
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Council Member Restler inquires about efforts to recruit federal workers to fill city government vacancies, particularly in light of recent federal government shrinkage. Commissioner Molina explains DCAS's approach to this issue.
- DCAS has conducted a minimum qualification review to equate work experience with academic requirements
- Federal work experience is considered valuable for many city government positions
- DCAS works with agencies on a case-by-case basis to reinstate former city employees who worked in federal government
Lincoln Restler
0:56:18
Thank you.
0:56:19
I'm going to just on federal government issues.
0:56:22
You know, we've obviously seen a massive shrinking of the federal government.
0:56:26
These, Deputy Commissioner Porter, may be for you too.
0:56:28
Don't know.
0:56:29
Just in case you don't get too comfortable.
0:56:32
We've seen a massive shrinking in the shrinkage in the federal government over the last three months and it seems like things are getting worse every day.
0:56:43
What are we doing to target federal workers to help fill vacancies in city government?
0:56:48
And then I just have a couple specific questions.
0:56:50
Have you examined whether job qualification requirements adequately consider federal service so that we're making it as easy as possible for formal federal employees to qualify for city positions?
0:57:02
And relatedly, I'm really interested in understanding if we've reviewed federal government pension plans to determine if there are changes that we could or should be making at NYSERs and to our other pensions to credit federal service to encourage people to leave who have left federal government to join city service.
Louis Molina
0:57:19
Okay.
0:57:20
So thank you for your question.
0:57:21
I'll just take the last part.
0:57:23
As it relates to NYSERs and federal pension plans, I'll leave that to NYSERs.
0:57:27
We haven't specifically looked at that issue.
0:57:30
I can tell you we've done significant work in our minimum qualification review where we have leaned and equal equified what I'll say is work experience.
0:57:39
And certainly for certain federal jobs, there could be significant work experience that is equal on part to maybe some academic training that would make that person qualified and competitive for that.
Lincoln Restler
0:57:49
I know that's been a priority of yours.
0:57:51
And I think that's a great thing that you've come in and tried to say work experience, lower some of the academic requirements, make sure that people who have real world experience that can help and contribute to city government are eligible for the positions.
0:58:01
That I love, but I'm just specifically on the federal government experience piece.
0:58:06
Have we looked at those at that in particular to understand if we need to make adjustments to make sure that they're we're incentivizing as much as possible for federal government, former federal government workers to join city service?
Louis Molina
0:58:17
So I think that the MQR review encompasses that because federal workers have significant work experience in a number of technical areas.
0:58:25
What we've also done is we've worked with agencies where if they had former city employees that went to took opportunity with the federal government, we're working with those agents and say, can this person be reinstated?
0:58:37
What is the process to rehire this person back in their agency that now has significantly more talent than when they left because of their experience with the feds?
0:58:46
So, it's on a case by case basis, depending on the title we're talking about and the status of that individual, but we engage with agencies who are trying to bring back former city employees that were federal workers as well.