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Sposato (36) Resolution
Call for City Council to refrain from hiring former city employees whose names appear on Ineligible for Rehire List Committee on Workforce Development and Audit
Introduced into Committee July 22,2014
SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, at various times the City's Inspector General has recommended, in a report concluding an investigation, that one or more employees who are subject ofthe investigation be discharged from city employment and that they be declared ineligible for future employment by the City; and
WHEREAS, in most cases the executive departments of the City government have acquiesced in the Inspector General's recommendation of permanent disqualification from future city employment; and
WHEREAS, this acquiescence has led to the development of a so-called "Ineligible for Rehire List" of names of former City employees in three categories: employees whose employment was terminated for disciplinary reasons; employees who resigned rather than have a discharge from employment on their work record, and employees who resigned while under investigation, and whom the Inspector General or other investigating authority determined to be guilty of an offense deserving discharge; and
WHEREAS, In 1972, the federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered the "Shakman decree," subjecting the City to a complex and evolving regime of legal requirements aimed at abating what the court perceived as serious systemic problems with municipal hiring; and
WHEREAS, Recognizing the City's diligent and sustained efforts to reform its policies and practices, on Monday, June 16, 2014, the federal court entered an order declaring substantial Shakman compliance and formally releasing the City from the 42-year-old decree; and
WHEREAS, the Shakman decree applied only to the executive branch of City government, not to the legislature; and
WHEREAS, in June of 2014 the City Council was first given a copy of t...
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