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- Title
TRYING TO AVOID LAYOFFS.
- Authors
Stanley, David T.
- Abstract
According to the author, there is no pressure on an institution like that which threatens its personnel, and municipalities are no exception to this rule. This is a time of fiscal stringency in many local governments, and employees are losing their jobs, or are afraid of losing their jobs. The greatest threats are in the fiscally endangered cities. In such cities the economic situation is declining, revenues are consequently doing likewise, and costs are rising. Such cities have to try to cut expenditures in order to stay solvent, law-abiding, or both. As a result pink slips are being pointed at employees for the first time in decades. No matter how necessary a prospective reduction may be, it encounters wide and determined resistance. Employees, of course, don't want to be fired, and both as individuals and through their unions or their political friends they do everything they can to hang on. Second, layoffs ultimately will result in cuts in service, interest groups who want to maintain the schools, or the softball diamonds, or the youth counseling program, or the drug clinics oppose so staffing reductions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LAYOFFS; MUNICIPAL government; PRESSURE groups; CITIES &; towns; COST control; DOWNSIZING of organizations; DISMISSAL of employees
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1977, Vol 37, Issue 5, p515
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/974702