The First Look at the City's FY2009-2010 Budget. But, In Truth, It's Just a Tease.

• Indeed -- same exact problem.

• Speaking of once a week trash and recycling, does the city contract out the recycling? We're in the 'test' zone and have been on this program for a while. Works out pretty well, except they miss the recycling about once a month. Gator Rob, are you having this issue too?

• Yes, and Hunt's point is an excellent one. It will be very interesting to hear whatever twisted reasoning Suhm has for keeping the Trinity River Corridor Staff intact. And I have yet to hear her accept any responsibility for this sad situation. Dallas is about to eat its seed corn thanks to her mismanagement and/or incompetence.

• Indeed. http://www.doleta.gov/layoff/pdf/WorkerWARN2003.pdf But I think Hunt's point is why are people being laid off en masse when the council hasn't actually signed off on a budget that calls for RIF'ing 850 workers. Perhaps she feels that such a large number of RIFs is not inevitable; Suhm, though, would disagree.

• Isn't it the WARN Act? And I thought it was 60 days notice prior to the mass layoff (or 60 days of pay in lieu of notice).

• I thought it was something to do with federal law -- in fact, I think we covered this before, but had no luck with our estimable, reliable search engine, so surprising. But I do appreciate the illumination and clarification, David.

• Re the pink slips - This is a legal requirement, I think per federal law... Anytime a large group of employees is set to be laid off, the employees and the state employment service (Texas Workforce Commission) must be notified at least 45 days in advance of the lay-off. Now, if some of these poor souls are resurrected, they will be un-notified by the City, and TEC will be notified. This usually works out for the better on all sides, in terms of getting prepared for a flood of applicants. There is a loophole on this, which I found myself in nearly ten years ago - If a national company is having a layoff, they only have to notify the state agency where they have 400+ employees located. My luck that my company at the time laid off 400 people in several states. Our only notice that something was about to happen was when our email service was not working. Forty-five minutes later... they are showing you the door.

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