An unprecedented number of Miami government jobs could soon be eliminated if the city fails to find a different way to balance its budget.
If city officials don’t find another solution in the near future, Miami could be forced to lay off 1,128 employees, or about 31 percent of the city’s workforce. Officials have been avidly looking for ways to mend a $100 million budget gap.
One tentative plan would change a civil service law and place the lowest-paid, shortest-tenured employees at the highest risk of being laid off, while allowing the highest-paid, longest-serving workers to keep their jobs.