Twenty-five employees at the city Department of Investigation – including administrators and investigators – are getting the ax, officials said yesterday.
DOI – the city’s frontline agency in combating government corruption – will see its budget slashed from $21.4 million to $18.6 million next year.
Officials disclosed that the layoffs are among the 4,500 pink slips Mayor Bloomberg announced earlier would be handed out by July.
The investigative agency handled 8,771 complaints last year.
Although layoff targets had been revealed for larger agencies, smaller ones such as the DOI weren’t made public previously.
The mayor said yesterday that union leaders, who’ve balked at providing $600 million in concessions demanded by the city, have to bear responsibility for layoffs.
“It’s disappointing that some of the union leaders were quoted as saying they didn’t care about those being laid off, they would rather have a handful of happy members left,” the mayor said.
“I don’t know that that’s good representation. But that’s up to the union members to go to their leaders . . . they could have saved some of these jobs.”
Bloomberg has warned that another 10,500 jobs are on the line if he doesn’t get the help he needs from Albany and the unions.