New York City Hiring Freeze 2025. Four months into a municipal hiring freeze and several rounds deep of slashing vacant city jobs from the budget, it can be easy to forget that an array of new york city. As part of this freeze, no federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on january 20, 2025, may be filled, and no new position may be created except as otherwise provided for.
Mayor eric adams is freezing nypd police officer hiring for the foreseeable future — including canceling several forthcoming academy classes — as part of budget cuts he blames on. A letter from budget director jacques jiha, first.